{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1885}} Events from the year '''1885 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== * January {{ndash}} The magazine ''Kvinden & Samfundet'' is established. * 1 October {{ndash}} DSB is founded through the merger of the state-owned Zealand Railway Company and Jutland-Funen Railway Company.
===Undated=== * The Danish Union of Joiners is established. * Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening is founded.
==Sports== * 13 May {{ndash}} Aalborg Boldspilklub is founded.
==Births== [[File:Gerda Wegener.jpg|thumb|120px|Gerda Wegener,]] [[File:Karen Blixen cropped from larger original.jpg|thumb|120px|Karen Blixen.]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 13 January {{ndash}} Rasmus Hansen, gymnast (died 1967) * 21 February ** Halvor Birch, gymnast (died 1962) ** Thøger Thøgersen, politician /died 1947) * 25 February – Christian Petersen, sculptor (died 1961 in USA) * 5 March {{ndash}} Gerda Wegener, illustrator and painter (died 1940) * 22 March {{ndash}} Jens Kristian Jensen, gymnast (died 1956)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 2 April {{ndash}} Rikard Magnussen, sculptor (died 1948) * 6 April – Holcha Krake, artist (died 1944 in USA) * 17 April – Karen Blixen (died 1962) * 23 April {{ndash}} Jais Nielsen, painter (died 1961)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 7 October – Niels Bohr, theoretical physicist (died 1962) * 23 October {{ndash}} Julius Lehrmann. sports shooter (died 1962) * 26 October {{ndash}} Niels Erik Nørlund, mathematician (died 1981) * 25 November {{ndash}} Daniel Andersen, composer, sculptor and ceramist (died 1959) * 15 December {{ndash}} Cay Lembcke, co-founder of the Danish Boy Schots movement (died 1965)
==Deaths== [[File:Jens Peter Trap by Otto Bache.jpg|thumb|120px| Jens Peter Trap.]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 21 January – Jens Peter Trap, royal secretary, topographical writer and publisher (born 1810) * 25 February {{ndash}} Mozart Waagepetersen, businessman (born 1813)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 27 April {{ndash}} Hans Vilhelm Kaalund, poet (born 1818) * 30 April {{ndash}} Jens Peter Jacobsenm author (born 1847) * 2 May {{mdash}} Peter Ludvig Panum, physiologist (born 1820)
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 2 June {{ndash}} Edouard Buntzen, lawyer and politician (born 1809) * 12 July {{ndash}} Ferdinand Victor Alphons Prosch, vetenarian and biologist (born 1820) * 21 September {{ndash}} Georg Emil Tuxen. maval officer (born 1814)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 11 November {{ndash}} Oswald Sickert, artist (born 1929) * 11 December {{ndash}} Niels Simonsen, painter, lithographer and sculptor (born 1807)
==References== {{reflist}}
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