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Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1897 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year1897 inDenmark.

• Monarch –Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister –Tage Reedtz-Thott (until 23 May),Hugo Egmont Hørring

• 23 May –Tage Reedtz-Thott resigns asPrime minister of Denmark
• 29 May –St. Luke's Church inFrederiksberg is consecrated as the first new church to be built to relieve the pressure onFrederiksberg Church in the fast-growingFrederiksberg district ofCopenhagen.^[2]
• 11 July —1897 Gentofte train crash
• 7 August —Cabinet of Hørring is formed byHugo Egmont Hørring of the conservative partyHøjre afterTage Reedtz-Thott's resignation asCouncil President,

• 12 June –Aarhus Fremad is founded.
• 30 July – 2 August –Edwin Schraeder wins a gold medal in men's sprint at the amateur event of the1897 ICA Track Cycling World Championships.

• 25 February –Erling Foss, engineer, businessman (died1982)

• 19 May –Wiwen Nilsson, silversmith (died1974 in Sweden)

• 29 August –Helge Rosvaenge, singer (died1972)

• 29 October –Sigurd Langberg, actor (died1954)
• 9 November –Arthur Jensen, actor (died1981)
• 31 December –Liva Weel, actress (died1952)

• 30 April –Carsten Henrichsen, painter (born1824)
• 12 May –Herman H. J. Lynge,antiquarian bookseller (born1822)
• 20 June –Johannes Steenstrup, natural scientist (born1813)
• 30 September –Peter Nielsen, botanist (born1829)
• 5 October –Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen, archivist (born1940)
• 6 November –Emma Thomsen, painter (born1820)

• 1897 in Denmark
• 1890s in Denmark
• 1897 by country
• Years of the 19th century in Denmark

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