{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{moresources|date=November 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1887}} Events from the year '''1887 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== * 28 January {{ndash}} The 1887 Danish Folketing election is held. * 17 September {{ndash}} The British St. Alban's Church is inaugurated in Copenhagen.
==Culture== ===Art=== * The Thorvaldsen Rxhibition Medal is awarded to Otto Haslund fpr the painting ''Concerto'' and Hans Michael Therkildsen for ''Køerne vandes'',
===Music=== * 17 September – Danish composer Carl Nielsen plays the violin at Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen at the premiere of his own ''Andante tranquillo e Scherzo for strings''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.carlnielsen.dk/bio/#biography/young-and-promising.php|title=Ung og lovende|website=Carl Nielsen Society|language=da|access-date=11 February 2025}}</ref> * 29 December – The composer Frederik Rung sets up the Madrigal choir at the Cecilia Association (Caeciliaforening) of Copenhagen.<ref>{{cite book|title=Nineteenth-Century Choral Music|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2013|isbn=9781136294099|page=173}}</ref> **Danish poet Holger Drachmann meets cabaret singer Amanda Nielsen, who becomes his muse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/869/origin/170/|title=Amanda Nielsen (1866-1953)|author=Thomsen, Allan Mylius|publisher=Kvinfo|accessdate=19 June 2017 |language=Danish}}</ref>
==Sports== * 23 May – Slagelse B&I is founded in Slagelse. * 12 July – Odense Boldklub is founded.
==Births== ===January–March=== * 28 January – Paul Lassenius Kramp, marine biologist (died 1975) * 10 February – Richard Gustav Borgelin, army officer (died 1966) * 4 March – Prince Gustav of Denmark, prince (died 1941
===April–June=== * 16 June – Aage Bendixen, actor (died 1973) * 30 May – Emil Reesen, composer, conductor and pianist (died 1964)
===April–June=== * 17 April – Axel Aabrink, painter (died 1065) * 23 April – Dagmar Overbye, murderer (died 1929) * 22 May – A. W. Sandberg, film director and screenwriter (died 1938) * 3 May – Ebba Thomsen, actress (died 1978) * 30 May – Emil Reesen, composer and conductor (died 1964) * 18 June – Feodor Asmussen, architect /died 1961) * 10 June – Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (died 1940 in Morocco) * 16 June – Gundorph Albertus, silversmith (died 1969)
===July–September=== * 3 July – Elith Pio, actor (died 1983) * 5 August – Thorvald Pedersen, pharmacist and company founder (died 1961)
===October–December=== * 5 October – Nils Middelboe, football player (died 1976) * 13 October – Viggo Brøndal, philologist (died 1942) * 28 October – Johannes Juul, engineer (died 1969) * 7 November – Bertel Dahlgaard, politician (died 1972) * 9 November – Kaj Gottlob, architect (died 1976) * 1 December – Axel Poulsen, sculptor (died 1972) * 12 December – Aage Fønss, opera singer (died 1976)
==Deaths== ===January–March=== * 19 March – Ferdinand Didrichsen, physician and botanist (born 1814) * 28 March – Ditlev Gothard Monrad, politician and bishop (born 1811)
===April–June=== * 22 April – Harald Bohr, mathematician (born 1951) * 28 April – Wolfgang von Haffner, military officer (born 1810) * 30 April – J.C. Jacobsen, brewer and industrialist, founder of Carlsberg (born 1811) * 16 May – Edouard Suenson, naval officer (born 1805) * 25 June – Josephine Schneider, educator and philanthropist (born 1820)
===July–September=== * 15 August – Meïr Aron Goldschmidt, journalist, publisher and novelist (born 1819) * 25 August – Thomas Lange, novelist (born 1829) * 16 September – Peter Andersen, budinessman (born 1814)
===October–December=== * 13 November – Hans Schjellerup, astronomer (born 1827) * 27 December – Frederik Hegel, bookseller and publisher (born 1817)
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