Events from the year 1915 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian X Prime minister – Carl Theodor Zahle
Events
7 May – A Folketing election is held. As required to change the Constitution, the government called for the dissolution of both the Folketing and the Landsting in order for the new Rigsdag to be able to introduce the new constitution. 5 June – Women's suffrage is introduced in Denmark, women are given the right to vote in Rigsdag elections.Report from Denmark in European Database Women in Decision-making. 27 June – Bedre Byggeskik, a late Danish incarnation of the Arts and Crafts Movement, is founded at a meeting in Odense as a reaction against the impoverished state of Danish architecture which they found to be a consequence of the Historicist style which had dominated the past decades.
Sports February Boldklubben Skjold is founded.
Births
JanuaryMarch 22 January Ole Berntsen, sailor (died 1996) 29 January Halfdan Rasmussen, poet (died 2002)
JulySeptember 21 August Raquel Rastenni, singer (died 1998) 26 August – Niels Macholm, painter and graphic artist (died in 1997) 21 September – Hanne Budtz, politician and lawyer (died 2004)
OctoberDecember 12 December – Tobias Faber, architect (died 2010)
Deaths JanuaryMarch 12 January Caroline Hammer, photographer (born 1832) 13 January – Barclay Raunkiær, Arabia explorer, author (born 1889) 6 February Niels Steenberg, engineer (born 1839) 9 March Charlotte Klein, educator (born 1834) 11 March – Vilhelm Rosenstand, artist (born 1838)
JulySeptember 8 September – Julius Villiam Gudmand-Høyer, author (born 1841) 11 September – Jens Birkholm, genre and landscape painter associated with the Funen Painters (born 1869)
OctoberDecember 26 November Jacob Scavenius. landowner and politician (born 1838) 4 December Anton Hegner, musician and composer (died 1861) 20 December Carl Locher, painter (born 1851)
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