1901 in Denmark

Events from the year 1901 in Denmark.

← 1900 1899 1898 1901 in Denmark → 1902 1903 1904
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1901 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister – Hannibal Sehested (until 24 May), Johan Henrik Deuntzer

Events

• 3 April – The 1901 Folketing election is held. It was the first use of a secret ballot in Denmark.
• 24 June – The Frilandsmuseet open-air museum is inaugurated in its present-day location north of Copenhagen.^[2]
• 24 July – Systemskiftet ("the change of system"): with the appointment of the Cabinet of Deuntzer, parliamentarism is instituted in Denmark,^[3] and with the exception of the Easter Crisis of 1920 no Danish government since 1901 has been formed against the vote of a majority of the members of the Folketing.
• 30 August – A royal decree opens the King's Gate to Rosenborg Castle Garden, at the corner of Gothersgade and Kronprinsessegade, to the public.^[2]
• 25 September – The Ny Carlsberg Foundation is established.^[2]
• 28 November – Øksnehallen opens in the Meatpacking District in Copenhagen.^[2]

Undated

• The first automobile is registered in Copenhagen.
• The first kindergarten with public support in Denmark is established and inaugurated at Enghave Plads in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen. Private kindergartens had been known since 1871.^[4]

Culture

Music

• 4 October – Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 3 is for the first time performed in public in the small hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen.

Sports

• 28 March – Skive IK is founded.
• 14 July – Thorvald Ellegaard wins gold in men's sprint at the 1901 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Births

• 20 February – Mogens Lassen, architect (died 1987)
• 3 May – Ebbe Schwartz, football (died 1964)
• 9 July – Peter Sekaer, photographer (died 1950)
• 25 August – Kjeld Abell, playwright (died 1961)

Deaths

January–March

• 1 January – Sophus Schandorph, poet (born 1836)
• 19 January – Henrik August Flindt, landscape architect (born 1822)
• 6 February – Christian Frederik Lütken, zoologist ad naturalist (born 1827)

October–December

• 19 October – Carl Frederik Tietgen, industrialist and banker (born 1829)
• 31 October – Frederik Christian Lund, painter and illustrator (born 1826)
• 16 November – Theobald Stein, sculptor (born 1829)
• 28 November – Ludvig Grundtvig, photographer (born 1836)