{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1883}} Events from the year '''1883 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|11 Pctpber_ The Russian tsar family departs from Copenhagen.;July * 3 July – The temperate reaches 35.0 °C at Flintholm Manor, which was then the highest temerature ever recorded in Denmark.
;October * 11 October {{ndash}} The Russian tsar family departs from Copenhagen.
;December * 1 December {{ndash}} The first Great Belt ferries, H/F ''Korsør'' and H/F ''Nyborg'', goes into service.
===Undated=== * Emil Christian Hansen from Carlsberg develops a method for propagating pure yeast which revolutionises the brewing industry. The yeast is named ''Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis'' after the brewery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitcarlsberg.dk/history/Pages/Default.aspx|title=The Carlsberg History|publisher=Carlsberg|access-date=2011-06-03}}</ref> * Harboe's Brewery is founded in Skælskør. * The Slagelse Hoard is discovered in Slagelse.
==Culture== ===Art=== * The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Thorvald Niss for ''Winter Scene from Folehaven'' and Bertha Wegmann for ''Portrait of the Artist's Sister''.
===Music=== *Danish composer Johan Svendsen is appointed principal conductor of Copenhagen's Royal Theatre Orchestra, despite his lack of experience in the role.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Finn Benestad|author2=Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe|author3=William H. Halverson|title=Johan Svendsen : the man, the maestro, the music|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=1995|isbn=9780964523807|page=214ff}}</ref> **Danish composer Carl Nielsen, aged 18, visits Copenhagen where he is introduced to Niels Gade. Gade suggests he enrol at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gary A Smook|title=The 100 Greatest Composers and Their Musical Works: An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Classical Music|publisher=FriesenPress|year=2019|isbn=9781525537868|page=268}}</ref>
==Births== ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 3 February – Aksel Jørgensen, painter and wood engraver (d. 1957) * 11 February – Paul von Klenau, composer and conductor (d. 1946) * 22 February – Olga Svendsen, actor (died 1942) * 26 March {{ndash}} Poul Reumert, actor /died 1968)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 8 April – Thorvald Andersen, architect /died 1935) * 23 April – Clara Pontoppidan, actress (died 1975) * 23 May – Vilhelm Hvalsøe, architect (died 1958)
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 19 August ** Emilius Bangert, composer and organist (d. 1962) ** Helga Ancher, painter (died 1064) * 23 August {{ndash}} [[]], composer (died 1959) * 25 September {{ndash}} Einar Middelboe, footballer (died 1968)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 3 October – Harry August Jansen, entertainer/magician (died 1955 in the United States) * 8 October – Otto Andrup, museum director (d. 1953)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Otto_Andrup|title=Otto Andrup|language=Danish|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=16 June 2022}}</ref> * 25 October {{ndash}} Ulrik Birch, aviator (died 1913)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Ulrik_Birch|title=Ulrik Birch|language=da|encyclopedia=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref> * 7 November – Johannes Pedersen, scholar (died 1977) * 2 December – Pola Gauguin, painter and writer (died 1961)
==Deaths== [[File:Portrait of J. A. Jerichau, c. 1846.jpg|thumb|120px|Jens Adolf Jerichau.]] [[File:Frederik Christopher Krohn.jpg|thumb|120px|Frederik Christopher Krohn.]] ===April{{ndash}}June=== * 2 May ** Christian Hansen, architect (b. 1803) ** Steen Andersen Bille, naval officer (born 1797) * 4 May — Thorald Brendstrup, painter (b. 1812)
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 14 July {{ndash}} Svend Grundtvig, literary historian and ethnologist (born 1824) * 25 July — Jens Adolf Jerichau, painter (b. 1816) * 2 September {{ndash}} Frederik Storch, painter (born 1805) * 13 September {{ndash}} Frederik Christopher Krohn, medallist and sculptor (born 1806)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 8 October {{ndash}} Hans Nielsen Jeppesen, businessman (born 1815) * 24 October {{ndash}} Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff, philologist (born 1842 at sea) * 30 November {{ndash}} Adda Ravnkilde, writer (born 1862) * 24 December {{ndash}} Camillus Nyrop, instrument maker (born 1811)
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