{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{morefootnotes|date=January 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1879}} Events from the year '''1879 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== thumb|Prince Valdemar's arrival at St. Croix.
===Undated=== * The Danish Photographers Association is founded as the first organization for professional photographers in the world.<ref>[http://www.photodk.com/ Dansk Fotografist Forening website.] {{in lang|da}}. Retrieved 15 February 2010.</ref> * The Thingvalla Line is founded. * The Foreningen imod Lovbeskyttelse for Usædelighed is founded. * Prince Valdemar visits St. Croix in the Danish West Indies.
==Culture== ===Theatre=== * 21 December {{ndash}} Henrik Ibsen's ''A Doll's House'' receives its world premiere at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, with Betty Hennings as Nora, Emil Poulsen as Torvald, and Peter Jerndorff as Dr. Rank.
==Births== ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 5 March {{ndash}} Søren Marinus Jensenm wrestler (died 1965) * 11 March {{ndash}} Kristian Hansen Kofoed, politician (died 1951)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 16 June – Sigurd Swane, painter (died 1973)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 18 November {{ndash}} Edvard Weie, painter (died 1943) * 28 November {{ndash}} Viggo Jarl, sculptor (died 1965) * 29 November – Jacob Gade, violinist and composer (died 1963)
==Deaths== [[File:Christen Købke - Portræt af maleren og litografen Peter Henrik Gemzøe - 1833.jpeg|thumb|120px|Peter Gemzøe.]] [[File:August Bournonville (1828 painting).jpg|thumb|120px| August Bournonville.]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 24 January – Carl Frederik Sørensen, marine painter (born 1818)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 6 May {{ndash}} Louis Aumont, painter (born 1805) * 5 June – Kristian Mantzius, actor (born 1819)
===July{{ndash}}September=== ===October{{ndash}}December=== * 3 October {{ndash}} Peter Gemzøe, painter and lithographer (born 1811) * 26 October {{ndash}} Andreas Aagesen, jurist (born 1826) * 30 November – August Bournonville, ballet master and choreographer (born 1805)
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