{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1877}} Events from the year '''1877 in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch – Christian IX<ref>{{cite web |title=Christian IX {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-IX |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=17 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup
==Events== [[File:Indvielsen af St. Pauls Kirken i Kjøbenhavn den 18de Februar 1877.png|thumb|160px|18 February: Inauguration of St. Paul's Church in Copenhagen]] ;January * 7 January – The weekly ''Illustreret Familie Journal'', now ''Familie Journalen'', is published for the first time. * ;February 15 February – St. Paul's Church in Copenhagen is completed and opens for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1800/1877.html|title=1877|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2011-02-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719125014/http://kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1800/1877.html|archive-date=19 July 2011|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * 18 February – St. Paul's Church in Copenhagen is inaugurated.
;April * 12 April – The Estrup government's adoption of a temporary national budget after dissolving Rigsdagen sets off the political struggle between Landstinget and Folketinget known as ''provisorietiden'', "the provisional era". The opposition introduces their so-called ''visnepolitik'', "whithering politics".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/vis/materiale/provisorisk-finanslov-1877/|title=Provisoriske finanslove 1877 of 1885|language=da|publisher=Aarhus Universitet|access-date=2014-09-12}}</ref>
;August * 12 August – Six houses are washed away when Lønstrup is hit by a thunderstorm and torrential rain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kulturarv.dk/1001fortaellinger/da_DK/loenstrup-fiskerleje/stories/naturkatastrofen-1877|title=Lønstrup Fiskerhuse|language=da|publisher=Kulturstyrelsen|access-date=2014-09-12}}</ref>
;December * 1 December – The Aarhus–Ryomgård section of the Grenaa Line railway is opened.
===Date unknown=== * Aarsdale Windmill is completed. * Nielsine Nielsen and Johanne Gleerup are admitted to the University of Copenhagen as Denmark's first female university students.
==Births== [[File:Ellen Jørgensen 1915.jpg|thumb|120px|Ellen Jørgen.]] [[File:Erik Scavenius 1 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|Erik Scavenius.]] ===January–March=== * 2 January – Johannes Schmidt, biologist credited with the 1920 discovery that eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn (died 1933) * 12 February – Holger Scheuermann, surgeon after whom Scheuermann's disease is named (died 1960) * 20 February – Albert Kongsbak, painter (died 1958) * 28 February – Peder Møller, violinist and music teacher (died 1940) * 6 March {{ndash}} Ellen Jørgensen, historian and librarian (died 1948) * 7 March – Thorvald Ellegaard, track racing cyclist (died 1954) * 15 March – Axel Frische, screenwriter, actor and film director (died 1956) * 22 March – Einar Ambt, architect (died 1928)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 11 April – Carl Alstrup, actor and film director (died 1943) * 1 April {{ndash}} Valdemar Henckel, businessman, company founder (died 1953) * 28 April – Frederik Draiby, architect, first city designer of Aarhus (died 1966) * 29 May – Jens Hajslund, Olympic sport shooter, bronze medalist in team free rifle at the 1912 Summer Olympics (died 1964) * 8 June – Thorvald Aagaard, composer (died 1937) * 27 June – Axel Høeg-Hansen, architect (died 1947)
===July–September=== * 1 July – Kay Schrøder, Olympic fencer, competitor at the 1920 Summer Olympics (died 1949) * 13 July – Erik Scavenius, politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 1942–1943 (died 1962) * 10 August – Harald Bergstedt, writer, novelist, playwright and poet (died 1965) * 22 August – Henning Eiler Petersen, mycologist, botanist and marine botanist (died 1946) * 5 September {{ndash}} Ove Jørgensen, classical scholar (died 1950)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 2 December – Carl Manicus-Hansen, gymnast, silver medalist in the team event in gymnastics at the 1906 Intercalated Games (died 1960)
==Deaths== [[File:Henrik Nicolai Clausen (C. A. Jensen).jpg|thumb|120px|Henrik Nicolai Clausen.]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 30 January – Rudolph Rothe, landscape architect (born 1802) * 26 February {{ndash}} Nicolai Jonathan Meinert, businessman (born 1791) * 28 March – Henrik Nicolai Clausen, theologian and National Liberal Party politician (born in 1793)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 25 April – Peter Faber, songwriter, telegraphy pioneer (born 1810)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 12 October {{ndash}} Ole Bang, medical doctor (born 1788) * 16 November – Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (born 1844)
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