← 1869 1868 1867 1870 in Denmark → 1871 1872 1873
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1870 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year1870 inDenmark.

• Monarch –Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister –C. E. Frijs (until 28 May),Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg

• 17 May – Theturreted ironcladGorm is launched from the Naval Dockyard inCopenhagen.^[2]
• 28 May – Prime MinisterC. E. Frijs resigns, and is replaced byLudvig Holstein-Holsteinborg.
• 26 September –Prince Christian, the future King Christian X, is born toCrown Prince Frederick andCrown Princess Louise.
• September/October – The literary fairy tale "The Most Incredible Thing", by poet and authorHans Christian Andersen, is published in the United States and Denmark.^[3]
• 4 October – The railway lineSouth Line (Sydbanen), betweenRoskilde andVordingborg by way ofKøge andNæstved, is opened.
• 2 November – TheVestre Cemetery inCopenhagen is opened.^[4]

• TheHansen Writing Ball is first patented and entered into production.
• Rosenfeldt Manor, just west ofVordingborg, is completed.^[5]
• Sundby Church inCopenhagen is completed.^[6]
• The political partyVenstre is founded.^[7]

• 7 January –Anna Syberg, painter, one of the "Funen Painters" (died1914)
• 15 January –Johan Peter Koch, captain and arctic explorer (died1928)
• 18 February
  • August Busck, Danish-American entomologist and author of works onmicrolepidoptera (died1944)
  • Thorvald Madsen, physician and bacteriologist (died1957)
• 1 March –Gerda Christophersen, actress and director (died1947)
• 9 April

• • Arild Rosenkrantz, nobleman, painter, sculptor, stained-glass artist and illustrator (died1964)
  • Albrecht Schmidt, film actor (died1945)
• 24 July –Holger Damgaard, Denmark's first press photographer (died1945)

• 25 July –Peter Rochegune Munch, historian and politician, served in three governments between 1909 and 1940 (died1948)
• 28 July –Michael Agerskov, spiritualist teacher and author (died1933)
• 3 August –Peter Jörgensen, entomologist and teacher, active in Argentina and Paraguay (died1937)
• 24 August –Frederik Torm, theologian (died1959)
• 26 September –Prince Christian, the future King Christian X (died1947)^[8]

• 16 October –Helge Rode, writer, critic and journalist (died1937)
• 25 November –Petrine Sonne, stage and film actress (died1946)
• 18 December –Anders Randolf, Danish-American actor during thesilent film era (died1930)

• 27 January –Johannes Flintoe, painter of landscapes and scenes from Scandinavian history (born1787)
• 25 February –Henrik Hertz, poet during theDanish Golden Age (born1797)

• 6 April –Christen Mikkelsen Kold, teacher who founded a school inRyslinge, which later became a model for the Danish folk high-school system (born1816)
• 13 April –Mathias Lüttichau, DanishMinister of War (born1795)
• 29 April –Niels Laurits Høyen, art historian (Denmark's first) and critic (born1798)
• 29 May –Emil Horneman, composer and art and music tradesman (born1809)

• 11 July –Cosmus Bræstrup, chief of police (born1789)
• 13 July –Christian Albrecht Jensen, portrait painter during theDanish Golden Age (born1792)
• 28 August –Søren Hjorth, railway pioneer and inventor (born1801)
• 13 September –Orla Lehmann, statesman and key figure in the development of Denmark's parliamentary government (born1810)

• 14 November –Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, zoologist and zoology teacher and textbook author (born1799)
• 30 November –Poul Pagh, merchant and shipowner (born1796)
• 5 December –Herman Severin Løvenskiold (born1815)

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