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Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	Other events of 1869 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year1869 inDenmark.

• Monarch –Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister –C. E. Frijs

• 4 February –Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening, Denmark's oldest ice skating club, is founded.^[2]
• 1 June – the telephone companyDet Store Nordiske Telegrafselskab A/S, present-dayGN Store Nord A/S, is founded as the result of merging three recently established telephone companies.^[3]
• 5 June – the equestrian statue of Frederick VII in the central square inKøge is inaugurated.
• 2 July – the first issue ofVestjylland eller Herning Folkeblad, present-dayHerning Folkeblad, is published.^[4]
• 28 July –Crown Prince Frederick, the future King Frederick VIII, marriesPrincess Louise of Sweden at theRoyal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 18 September – theRanders–Aalborg railway line, a newly completed railroad stretch betweenRanders andAalborg, is inaugurated.^[5]
• 22 September – the1869 Folketing election is held;^[6] theMellem Party becomes the biggest party by winning 27 seats.^[7]C. E. Frijs remains Prime Minister.

• Rud. Rasmussen, a wooden furniture manufacturing company, is founded.^[8]
• An international archeology congress visits the Sølager archeological site atGundested.

• 2 January –Carl Moltke, Danish nobleman, minister to the United States in 1908,Minister of Foreign Affairs 1924–1926 (died1935)
• 26 March –Hans Munch-Petersen, scholar (died1934)

• 6 April –Thomas Bærentzen, sculptor (died1936)
• 28 April –Christian Geisler, organist and composer (died1951)
• 7 June –Ole Olsen, sport shooter, Olympic bronze medalist inteam free rifle at the1912 Summer Olympics (died1944)
• 26 June
  • Martin Andersen Nexø, socialist, later communist, writer (died1954)
  • Ingeborg Appel, educator (died1948)

• 3 July –Svend Kornbeck, stage and film actor (died1933)
• 13 July –Christian Schrøder, film actor (died1940)
• 13 August –Carl Christensen, Denmark's last executioner (died1936)

• 21 October –Bernhard Ingemann, architect (died (1923)
• 11 November –Jens Birkholm, genre and landscape painter associated with theFunen Painters (died1915)
• 23 November –Valdemar Poulsen, engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder (died1942)
• 6 December –Elna Borch, naturalism and symbolism sculptor (died1950)
• 7 December –Ole Bendixen, explorer, merchant and author (died1958)
• 18 December –Peter Esben-Petersen, entomologist (died1942)
• 21 December –Christian Klengenberg, whaler, trapper and trader (died1931)
• 26 December –August Blom, film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films (died1947)

• 11 March –Christian August, Duke of Augustenborg, claimant of the provinces of Slesvig and Holstein (born1798)
• 2 April –Frederik Treschow, supreme court attorney, politician, landowner and philanthropist (born1786)
• 8 April –Friedrich Gotschalk, businessman (born 1786)
• 22 May –Anton Eduard Kieldrup, landscape painter (born1826)
• 13 June –Daniel Bentley, civil servant and mayor ofCopenhagen (born1786)
• 5 October –Adolph Peter Adler, theologian (born1812)
• 14 December –Fritz Melbye, marine painter (born1826)

• 1869 in Denmark
• 1869 by country
• 1860s in Denmark
• Years of the 19th century in Denmark

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