1909 in Denmark

← 1908 1907 1906 1909 in Denmark → 1910 1911 1912
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1909 List of years in Denmark

The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Kingdom of Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VIII
• 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.^[1]

Births

• 3 January – Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, conductor and pianist (d. 2000)
• 20 December – Vagn Holmboe, composer (d. 1996)

Deaths

• 27 April – Hugo Egmont Hørring, politician, prime minister of Denmark (b. 1842)
• 0 July – Johannes Forchhammer, philologist (died 1827)
• 21 November – Peder Severin Krøyer, Norwegian-born painter (b. 1851)
• 29/30 December – Carl Emil Krarup, telegraph engineer, mainly known for the invention of the Krarup cable, a kind of loaded cable (b. 1872)

References

See also