1868 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1868}}
Events from the year 1868 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- 24 April – The Port of Esbjerg construction act provides for the construction of a new export port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, as a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour.{{cite web|url=http://www.eba.esbjergkommune.dk/Esbjergs%20historie/Esbjerg%20Kr%C3%B8niken.aspx|title=Esbjerg Krøniken - Esbjergs udvikling i årstal|language=da|publisher=Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv|access-date=2012-11-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924224448/http://www.eba.esbjergkommune.dk/Esbjergs%20historie/Esbjerg%20Kr%C3%B8niken.aspx|archive-date=24 September 2012|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
- 7 August – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen is established.
- 16 October – All Danish rights to the Nicobar Islands, which since 1848 had been gradually abandoned, are sold to the British as the last remains of Danish India.
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- Magasin du Nord is established in Aarhus as Emil Vett & Co. by Theodor Wessel and Emil Vett.
Births
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 7 January {{ndash}} Johannes Wilhjelm, painter (died 1938)
- 9 January {{ndash}} S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist (died 1939)
=April{{ndash}}June=
- 13 May – Peter Hansen, painter (d. 1928)
- 25 April – Carl Wentorf, artist (d. 1914)
- 26 May – Carl Johan Bonnesen, sculptor (d. 1933)
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 17 july – Henri Nathansen, writer and stage director (d. 1944)
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 25 October – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor (d. 1952)
- 27 November {{ndash}} Wilhelm Hansen, businessman and art collector (died 1936)
Deaths
- 16 January – Christopher Bagnæs Hansen, furniture maker (b. 1806)
- 14 February – Emil Bærentzen, painter (b. 1799)
- 8 March {{ndash}} Axel Kittendorff, lithographer (born 1721)
- 10 March
- Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (b. 1798)
- Bernt Wilhelm Westermann, businessman (b. 1781)
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