Events from the year 1880 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian IX Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup
Events
January 1 January The Danish state took over Det sjællandske Jernbaneselskab (the Zealand Railway Company), forming De sjællandske Statsbaner (the State Railways of Zealand). The company is not merged with its Hutland and Gunen sister companies until 1885). 20 January The Hillerød-Græsted section of the Gribskov Railway opens.
April 16 April The Vega Expedition calls at Copenhagen. 18 April A banquet is held for Nordenskiöld and the other members of the Vega Expedition in the Great Hall of Børsen in Copenhagen.
September 30 September HDMS Tordenskjold is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
October 2 October – The newspaper Skive Folkeblad is first published in the town of Skive, Jutland. 30 Octeober – The temperature drops to -11.9 °, the coldest temperature ever recorded in Denmark in the month of October.
Undated Tuborg Brewery starts brewing beer.
Cultuure Literature 9 December Jens Peter Jacobsen's Niels Lyhne by Gyldendal.
Sports 27 Aoruk Handelsstandens Gymnastikforening us founded. 26 September Aarhus Gymnastikforening is founded.
Births JanuaryMarch 20 January Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen, historian and philologist (died 1955) 14 March Princess Thyra of Denmark (died 1945)
AprilJune 11 April Stefan Rasmussen, footballer (died 1051) 29 April Viggo Christensen, politician (died 1967) 11 May Knud Degn, sailor (died 1965) 21 May Edvard Nielsen-Stevns, writer (died 1949) 15 June Niels Bukh, gymnast and educator (died 1950) 20 June Julius Jørgensen, long-distance runner /died 1937)
JulySeptember 1 July Carl Carlsen, wrestler (died 1959) 18 July Henning Hansen, architect (died 1945) 14 August Viggo Larsen, film actor, director and producer (died 1957) 4 September Dick Nelson, boxer (died 1922) 27 September Marie Niedermann, actress (died 1967) 25 Aigist Karl Kristian Steincke, politician (died 1963)
OctoberDecember 22 October Julius Paulsen, painter (died 1940) 26 October Knud Kristensen, politician (died 1962) 11 November Ejnar Sylvest, physician (died 1972) 23 December Ejnar Mikkelsen, polar explorer (died 1971) 26 December Yutta Barding, fencer (died 1076)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 29 March – Constantin Hansen, painter (born 1804 in Denmark)
AprilJune 6 April Louise Westergaard, pedagogue and educator (born 1826) 17 May Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician (born 1817) 24 June Johan Carl Christian Petersen, seaman, expedition member, interpretor (born 1813) 25 June Charles Ferdinand Léonard Mourier, Supreme Court justice (born 1800)
JulySeptember 25 July Vilhelm Petersen, painter (born 1812)
OctoberDecember 6 October Johann Gottfried Burman Becker, pharmacist, writer and illustrator (born 1802)
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