1908 in Denmark

← 1907 1906 1905 1908 in Denmark → 1909 1910 1911
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1908 List of years in Denmark

The following lists events that happened during 1908 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick VIII
• Prime minister - J. C. Christensen (until 12 October), Niels Neergaard

Events

Danish gunboats seizing HMS Turbulent, 9 June 1808.

Poster from the opening of Det Ny Teater

• 9 June - In the Gunboat War, Danish gunboats seizes HMS Turbulent
• 14 June – Gefion Fountain inaugurated at Langelinie in Copenhagen.
• 8 September – Former Minister of Justice Peter Adler Alberti turns himself in to the police for embezzlement of DKK 18 million (roughly DKK 1 billion as of 2006).^[1]
• 19 September – Det Ny Teater opens in Copenhagen as the second largest theatre in the country.
• 20 October – Skagen Museum is founded in the dining room at Brøndums Hotel in Skagen with the ambition to collect works by the Skagen Painters and raise funds for the construction of a building for their exhibition.^[2]

Undated

• Labour shortage begin to occur and the emigration to America almost stops.

Births

• 31 March – Karl Skytte, politician (d. 1986)
• 12 May – Gunnar Strømvad, actor (d. 1972)
• 31 May – Sigfred Johansen, actor (d. 1953)
• 1 October – Herman David Koppel, composer (d. 1998)
• 6 October – Bjarne Henning-Jensen, film director (d. 1995)
• 22 October – Ole Monty, actor (d. 1977)
• 23 October – Urban Hansen, politician, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen (d. 1986)

Deaths

• 14 January – Holger Drachmann, poet, painter (b. 1846)
• 3 February – Ferdinand Meldahl, architect (b. 1827)
• 20 March – Frants Henningsen, painter (b. 1850)
• 27 August – Thorvald Bindesbøll, architect, designer (b. 1846)
• 20 October – Emil Blichfeldt, architect (b. 1849)
• 26 October – Lorenz Frølich, painter and graphic artist (b. 1820)
• 8 November – Heinrich Hirschsprung, lawyer, businessman and patron (b. 1836)

References