2011 in Denmark

Events from the year 2011 in Denmark.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April–June 2.5 July–September 2.6 October–December 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 References 6 See also

Incumbents

• Monarch - HM Queen Magrethe II of Denmark
• Prime minister - Lars Løkke Rasmussen (until 3 October), Helle Thorning Schmidt

Events

January

• January 10 – Denmark and Serbia signs a defense agreement.^[1]
• January 13 – Lene Espersen, party leader of the Danish Conservative Party, announces her resignation from the post after a period of intense criticism in the media and from fellow party members.^[2]
• January 14 – Lars Barfoed is elected as new political leader of the Conservative party.^[3]
• January 16 – Susanne Bier's In a Better World (Hævnen) wins the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
• January 19 – Denmark starts the trial against the Somali man who attacked Kurt Westergaard.^[4][5]
• January 26 – Danish chef Rasmus Kofoed wins the Bocuse d'Or competition.^[6]

February

• February 24 – A Danish family is kidnapped from their private yacht off the coast of Somalia by Somali pirates.^[7]
• February 27 – Susanne Bier's In a Better World also wins an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards.^[8]

March

• March 13 – By unanimous vote, Denmark's Parliament authorized direct military action by its air force to help enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1973, marking the only time so far in the state's history that military commitment was supported by full parliamentary unity.^[9] The Royal Danish Air Force is participating with six F-16AM fighters, one C-130J-30 Super Hercules military transport plane and the corresponding ground crews. Only four F-16s will be used for offensive operations, while the remaining two will act as reserves.^[10] The first airstrikes from Danish aircraft were carried out on 23 March with four aircraft making twelve sorties as part of Operation Odyssey Dawn.^[11] The Guardian reported in May 2011, that Danish F-16 fighters killed Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Arab Gaddafi.^[12]
• March 16 – René Redzepi's restaurant Noma in Copenhagen's Christianshavn neighbourhood is ranked as the best restaurant in the world for the second year in a row on the magazine Restaurants list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants.^[13]

April–June

• April 14 – Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary's twins are baptised at a ceremony in the Church of Holmen in Copenhagen and given the names Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander and Josephine Sofia Ivalo Mathilda.^[14]
• April 26 – Bo Lidegaard is appointed as new editor-in-chief of the newspaper Politiken.
• May 16 – Bella Sky Hotel is inaugurated in Ørestad, Copenhagen. With 814 rooms, it becomes the largest hotel in Scandinavia.^[15]
• May 20 – Nicolas Winding Refn wins the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival.^[16]
• May 19 – Danish architecture firms receive three out of eight RIBA European Awards when the Royal Institute of British Architects announces the annual RIBA Award winners. Two of the awards go to Lundgaard & Tranberg and one goes to 3XN.^[17]
• May 28 – Olafur Eliasson's artwork Your Rainbow on the top of the ARoS Museum of Art in Aarhus is inaugurated.^[18]
• May 31 – Lors Doukaiev, the would-be bomber from the Hotel Jørgensen explosion, is sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for last September's failed plan to send a letter bomb to Jyllands Posten.^[19]
• June 3 – Copenhagen Suborbitals, a private non-profit rocketgroup, makes their first successful full-scale test-launch of the HEAT 1X rocket from a self-built ramp off the coast of Bornholm.^[20]
• June 22 – Denmark recognises the National Transitional Council as the only legitimate representation of Libya.^[21]

July–September

• September 15 – The 2011 Danish parliamentary election is held and leads to a majority for the opposition parties
• September 28 – The 73-years old listed K.B. Hallen event venue in Copenhagen is devastated by fire.^[22]

October–December

• October 3 – The Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt is presented at Amalienborg Palace and Helle Thorning-Schmidt takes office as the first ever female PM of Denmark.^[23]
• October 11 – Denmark secures qualification for Euro 2012, with a 2-1 win over Portugal.^[24]

Births

• January 8
  • Prince Vincent, prince of Denmark
  • Princess Josephine, princess of Denmark

Deaths

• January 23 – Poul Volther, furniture designer (b. 1923)
• January 27 – Tøger Seidenfaden, journalist, editor-in-chief of Politiken (b. 1957)
• March 2 – Erling Kroner, jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader (b. 1943)
• March 9 – Inge Sørensen, swimmer (b. 1924)
• April 6 – Thøger Birkeland, author (b. 1922)
• August 22 – Jesper Klein, actor (b. 1944)

References

See also

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