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List of events
Events from the year
1869 in
Denmark .
Incumbents
Events
5 June: Inauguration of the equestrian statue of Frederick VII on the central square in
Køge .
17 August: The opening meeting of the 4th Archeological Congress.
18 September: the first train arriving to the
Aalborg station .
4 February –
Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening , Denmark's oldest ice skating club, is founded.
[2]
1 June – the telephone company Det Store Nordiske Telegrafselskab A/S , present-day
GN 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 in
Køge is inaugurated.
2 July – the first issue of Vestjylland eller Herning Folkeblad , present-day
Herning Folkeblad , is published.
[4]
28 July –
Crown Prince Frederick , the future King Frederick VIII, marries
Princess Louise of Sweden at the
Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
18 September – the
Randers–Aalborg railway line , a newly completed railroad stretch between
Randers and
Aalborg , is inaugurated.
[5]
22 September – the
1869 Folketing election is held;
[6] the
Mellem Party becomes the biggest party by winning 27 seats.
[7]
C. E. Frijs remains Prime Minister.
Date unknown
The international archeological congress at Sølager. Illustration by B. Olsen from
Illustreret Tidende .
Rud. Rasmussen , a wooden furniture manufacturing company, is founded.
[8]
An international archeology congress visits the Sølager archeological site at
Gundested .
Births
January–March
April–June
July–December
3 July –
Svend Kornbeck , stage and film actor (died
1933 )
13 July –
Christian Schrøder , film actor (died
1940 )
13 August –
Carl Christensen , Denmark's last executioner (died
1936 )
11 November –
Jens Birkholm , genre and landscape painter associated with the
Funen Painters (died
1915 )
23 November –
Valdemar Poulsen , engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder (died
1942 )
6 December –
Elna Borch , naturalism and symbolism sculptor (died
1950 )
7 December –
Ole Bendixen , explorer, merchant and author (died
1958 )
18 December –
Peter Esben-Petersen , entomologist (died
1942 )
21 December –
Christian Klengenberg , whaler, trapper and trader (died
1931 )
26 December –
August Blom , film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films (died
1947 )
Deaths
January–March
April–June
October–December
References