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2015 in Denmark

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The following lists events that happened in 2015 in Denmark.

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As the Danish constitution require parliamentary elections to occur at least every 4 years (the latest election to the Folketing being conducted in 2011), 2015 will be an election year.

Incumbents

  • Monarchy: Margrethe II
  • Prime Ministers: Helle Thorning Schmidt (until 28 June), Lars Løkke Rasmussen

    • Events

  • 12 February – Politiken staff photographer Mads Nissen wins the 2014 World Press Photo of the Year.
  • 14-15 February – 2015 Copenhagen shootings: Two people are killed and several police officers are injured in shootings, the first at a free speech gathering of journalists, artists and cartoonists, the second at the Great Synagogue in Copenhagen.
  • 15 February – Danish police kill a man near Nørrebro station after an exchange of gunfire. The police believe he was the man responsible for the two previous attacks.
  • 17-19 March – State visit from His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen of the Netherlands.

    • Deaths

  • 6 February – Kathrine Windfeld, film director (born 1966)
  • 12 March – Peter Heering, manufacturer of liqueurs (born 1934)
  • 14 March – Ib Melchior, film director and screenwriter (born 1917)
  • 21 March – Jørgen Ingmann, musician (born 1925)
  • 2 April – Per Vilhelm Brüel, physicist and engineer (born 1915)

    • References

    2015 in Denmark Wikipedia
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