1915 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1915}}
Events from the year 1915 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
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- 7 May – A Folketing election is held. As required to change the Constitution, the government called for the dissolution of both the Folketing and the Landsting in order for the new Rigsdag to be able to introduce the new constitution.
- 5 June – Women's suffrage is introduced in Denmark, women are given the right to vote in Rigsdag elections.[http://www.db-decision.de/CoRe/Denmark.htm Report from Denmark] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827090248/http://www.db-decision.de/CoRe/Denmark.htm |date=27 August 2017 }} in European Database Women in Decision-making.
- 27 June – Bedre Byggeskik, a late Danish incarnation of the Arts and Crafts Movement, is founded at a meeting in Odense as a reaction against the impoverished state of Danish architecture which they found to be a consequence of the Historicist style which had dominated the past decades.
Sports
- February {{ndash}} Boldklubben Skjold is founded.
Births
- 22 January {{ndash}} Ole Berntsen, sailor (died 1996)
- 26 August – Niels Macholm, painter and graphic artist (died in 1997)
- 21 September – Hanne Budtz, politician and lawyer (died 2004){{cite encyclopedia|last=Harding|first=Merete|last2=Kauffeldt|first2=Carl|title=Hanne Budtz|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Hanne_Budtz|encyclopedia=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|edition=Third|language=da|date=14 February 2014|access-date=24 February 2022}}
- 12 December – Tobias Faber, architect (died 2010)
Deaths
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- 12 January {{ndash}} Caroline Hammer, photographer (born 1832)
- 13 January – Barclay Raunkiær, Arabia explorer, author (born 1889)
- 6 February {{ndash}} Niels Steenberg, engineer (born 1839)
- 11 March – Vilhelm Rosenstand, artist (born 1838)
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- 8 September – Julius Villiam Gudmand-Høyer, author (born 1841)
- 11 September – Jens Birkholm, genre and landscape painter associated with the Funen Painters (born 1869)
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- 20 December {{ndash}} Carl Locher, painter (born 1851)
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