1868 in Denmark

Events from the year 1868 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – C. E. Frijs

Events

• 24 April – A law is adopted providing for the construction of a new port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour.^[1]
• 7 August – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen is established.
• 16 October – All Danish rights to the Nicobar Islands, which since 1848 had been gradually abandoned, are sold to the British as the last remains of Danish India.

Births

• 13 May – Peter Hansen, painter (d. 1928)
• 26 May – Carl Johan Bonnesen, sculptor (d. 1933)
• 25 October – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor (d. 1952)

Deaths

• 14 February – Emil Bærentzen, painter (b. 1799)
• 10 March – Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (b. 1798)

References

See also