1868 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• 24 April – The Port of Esbjerg construction act provides for the construction of a new export port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, as a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour.
• 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.

Undated

• Magasin du Nord is established in Aarhus as Emil Vett & Co. by Theodor Wessel and Emil Vett.

Births

January{{ndash}}March

• 7 January Johannes Wilhjelm, painter (died 1938)
• 9 January S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist (died 1939)

April{{ndash}}June

• 13 May – Peter Hansen, painter (d. 1928)
• 25 April – Carl Wentorf, artist (d. 1914)
• 26 May – Carl Johan Bonnesen, sculptor (d. 1933)

July{{ndash}}September

• 17 july – Henri Nathansen, writer and stage director (d. 1944)

October{{ndash}}December

• 25 October – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor (d. 1952)
• 27 November Wilhelm Hansen, businessman and art collector (died 1936)

Deaths

• 16 January – Christopher Bagnæs Hansen, furniture maker (b. 1806)
• 14 February – Emil Bærentzen, painter (b. 1799)
• 8 March Axel Kittendorff, lithographer (born 1721)
• 10 March
  • Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (b. 1798)
  • Bernt Wilhelm Westermann, businessman (b. 1781)

References

References

1. "Christian IX {{!}} king of Denmark".
2. "Esbjerg Krøniken - Esbjergs udvikling i årstal". Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv.