1878 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1878}}
Events from the year 1878 in Denmark.
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Events
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- 3{{ndash}}9 July {{ndash}} The 11th Scandinavian Scientist Conference is held in Copenhagen.
- 9 May {{ndash}} The panserbatteri Helgoland is launched.
- 21 December {{ndash}} Princess Thyra of Denmark is wed to Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover in Copenhagen. The couple continue to Fredensborg Palace after the wedding ceremony.
Births
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 1 January – Agner Krarup Erlang, mathematician, statistician and engineer
- 6 January – Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballet dancer (died 1970)
- 13 March – Lau Lauritzen Sr., film director, screenwriter and actor (died 1938)
- 11 April – Holger-Madsen, actor (died 1943)
- 17 March {{ndash}} Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect (died 1945)
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 30 July {{ndash}} Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, businessman, company founder (died 1964)
- 2 August – Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, duchess of Västergötland (died 1958 in Sweden)
- 25 September {{ndash}} Holger Thiele, astronomer (died 1946)
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 9 November {{ndash}} Povl Baumann, architect (died 1963)
- 24 December – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, politician, former Danish prime minister (died 1943)
Deaths
- 6 March {{ndash}} Harald Jerichau, painter (born 1851)
- 4 December {{ndash}} David B. Adler, businessman (born 1826)
References
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