1882 in Denmark
Incumbents
Events
- 2 January – FLSmidth, a supplier of cement production technology, is founded by Frederik Læssøe Smidth as a small "technical bureau" based in a single room of his mother's apartment.{{cite web|url=http://www.flsmidth.com/en-US/About+FLSmidth/History/1882-1899|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614061241/http://www.flsmidth.com/en-US/About+FLSmidth/History/1882-1899|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-06-14|title=1882-1899|publisher=FL Smith|access-date=2011-06-03}}
- 10 June {{ndash}} Hjedding Dairy is established as Denmark's first cooperative dairy.
- 5 November – Carl Jacobsen's sculpture collection, which later forms the basis of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, is opened to the public in his winter garden.{{fact|date=July 2019}}
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- A group of dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy.
Births
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 11 February – Knud V. Engelhardt, industrial designer (died 1931)
=April{{ndash}}June=
- 5 April {{ndash}} Karen Callisen, geologist (died 1970)
- 25 April – Christian Mortensen, world's oldest man of his day (died 1998)
- 2 May – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (d. 1960)
- 7 May {{ndash}} Thorvald Niss, painter (died 1905)
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 19 September – Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer (died 1949)
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 16 November – Kai Nielsen, sculptor (died 1924)
Deaths
- 28 January – Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter (born 1815)
- 24 August {{ndash}} Niels Christian Kierkegaard, craftsman and lithographer (nprm 1906)
- 24 October {{ndash}} Margit Brandt, fashion designer (born 1945)
- 4 December {{ndash}} Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (born 1802)
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