1909 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1909}}
The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Kingdom of Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Frederick VIII{{cite web |title=Frederick VIII {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-VIII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=17 June 2019 |language=en}}
- Prime minister – Niels Neergaard (until 16 August), Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg (until 28 October), Carl Theodor Zahle
Events
- 20 April – Women are given the right to vote in municipal elections. General women's suffrage is not introduced in Denmark until 1915.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/876/|title=100 år med kvinders valgret|publisher=KVINFO|access-date=2009-11-08| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091025154211/http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/876/| archive-date= 25 October 2009 | url-status= live}}
Sports
- 9 June {{ndash}} Skovshoved IF is founded.
=Cycling=
- 14–23 August {{ndash}} The 1909 UCI Track Cycling World Championships are held in Copenhagen.
Births
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 3 January – Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, conductor and pianist (d. 2000)
- 22 February {{ndash}} Vermund Larsen, businessman, company founder (died 1970)
=April{{ndash}}June=
- 9 May {{ndash}} Hilde Levi, physicist (died 2003)
= July{{ndash}}September =
- 5 July {{ndash}} Aagot Lading, educator (died 1963)
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 20 August – Martin A. Hansen, writer (died 1955)
- 20 December – Vagn Holmboe, composer (died 1996)
Deaths
=January{{ndash}}March=
- 13 February
- Hugo Egmont Hørring, politician, prime minister of Denmark (born 1842)
- Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, lawyer (born 1826)
=April{{ndash}}June=
- 7 May – Joachim Andersen, flutist, conductor and composer (born 1847)
=July{{ndash}}September=
- 9 July – Johannes Forchhammer, philologist (born 1827)
- 19 July – Leopold Rosenfeld, composer (born 1849)
- 27 August {{ndash}} Emil Christian Hansen, chemist (born 1842)
- 25 September – Thomas Skat Rørdam, theologian and bishop (born 1832)
=October{{ndash}}December=
- 13 October – Janus la Cour, painter (born 1837)
- 21 November – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-born painter (b. 1851)
- 4 December – Princess Marie of Orléans, wife of Prince Valdemar (born 1865 in London)
- 29/30 December – Carl Emil Krarup, telegraph engineer, mainly known for the invention of the Krarup cable, a kind of loaded cable (born 1872)
References
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