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1909 in Denmark

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Decades:
  
1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

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

Contents

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.
  • 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

    1909 in Denmark Wikipedia