Events from the year 1888 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian IX Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup
Events
Undated
The Nordic Exhibition of 1888 took place in Copenhagen.
Culture Art The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Carl Thomsen for the painting Middag i en Præstegaard efter en Bispevisitats.
Music 5 February First public performance of Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 1 in the smaller hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen.
Theatre, opera and ballet 19 November C. F. E. Horneman's opera Aladin premiers at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.
Births
JanuaryMarch 6 March Hans Christian Hagedorn, pharmachologist and Novo Nordisk co-founder (died 1971) 9 March Ernestine Nyrop, textile artist (died 1975) 15 March – Sophus Nielsen, footballer (died 1963) 30 March – Einar Utzon-Frank, sculptor (died 1955)
AprilJune 26 April – Olaf Henriksen, Major League baseball player (died 1962)
JulySeptember 15 July – Svend Bille, actor (died 1973) 28 July – Adam Fischer, sculptor (died 1968) 12 August Prince Axel of Denmark (died 1964) John Olsen, film producer (died 1959) 9 September Frederik Zeuthen, economist (died 1959)
OctoberDecember 13 December A. J. Iversen, cabinetmaker and furniture designer (died 1979) 15 December – Kaare Klint, architect (died 1954) 16 December – Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Olympic athlete (died 1965)
Deaths
29 February – Wilhelm Sponneck, nobleman and politician, Danish finance minister (born 1815) 12 March Frederik Wilhelm Dannemand, military officer and landowner (born 1813) 8 August – Jørgen Roed, painter (born 1808) 14 August – Carl Christian Hall, politician, Danish prime minister (born 1812)
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