1885 in Denmark

Events from the year 1885 in Denmark.

← 1884 1883 1882 1885 in Denmark → 1886 1887 1888
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1885 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup

Events

• January – The magazine Kvinden & Samfundet is established.
• 1 October – DSB is founded through the merger of the state-owned Zealand Railway Company and Jutland-Funen Railway Company.

Undated

• The Danish Union of Joiners is established.
• Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening is founded.

Sports

• 13 May – Aalborg Boldspilklub is founded.

Births

Gerda Wegener,

Karen Blixen.

January–March

• 13 January – Rasmus Hansen, gymnast (died 1967)
• 21 February
  • Halvor Birch, gymnast (died 1962)
  • Thøger Thøgersen, politician /died 1947)
• 25 February – Christian Petersen, sculptor (died 1961 in USA)
• 5 March – Gerda Wegener, illustrator and painter (died 1940)
• 22 March – Jens Kristian Jensen, gymnast (died 1956)

April–June

• 2 April – Rikard Magnussen, sculptor (died 1948)
• 6 April – Holcha Krake, artist (died 1944 in USA)
• 17 April – Karen Blixen (died 1962)
• 23 April – Jais Nielsen, painter (died 1961)

October–December

• 7 October – Niels Bohr, theoretical physicist (died 1962)
• 23 October – Julius Lehrmann. sports shooter (died 1962)
• 26 October – Niels Erik Nørlund, mathematician (died 1981)
• 25 November – Daniel Andersen, composer, sculptor and ceramist (died 1959)
• 15 December – Cay Lembcke, co-founder of the Danish Boy Schots movement (died 1965)

Deaths

Jens Peter Trap.

January–March

• 21 January – Jens Peter Trap, royal secretary, topographical writer and publisher (born 1810)
• 25 February – Mozart Waagepetersen, businessman (born 1813)

April–June

• 27 April – Hans Vilhelm Kaalund, poet (born 1818)
• 30 April – Jens Peter Jacobsenm author (born 1847)
• 2 May — Peter Ludvig Panum, physiologist (born 1820)

July–September

• 2 June – Edouard Buntzen, lawyer and politician (born 1809)
• 12 July – Ferdinand Victor Alphons Prosch, vetenarian and biologist (born 1820)
• 21 September – Georg Emil Tuxen. maval officer (born 1814)

October–December

• 11 November – Oswald Sickert, artist (born 1929)
• 11 December – Niels Simonsen, painter, lithographer and sculptor (born 1807)