{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1901}} Events from the year '''1901 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 – Hannibal Sehested (until 24 May), Johan Henrik Deuntzer
==Events== * 3 April – The 1901 Folketing election is held. It was the first use of a secret ballot in Denmark. * 24 June – The Frilandsmuseet open-air museum is inaugurated in its present-day location north of Copenhagen.<ref name="Selskabet for Københavns Historie">{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1901.html|title=1901|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2010-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301061406/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1901.html|archive-date=1 March 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 24 July – ''Systemskiftet'' ("the change of system"): with the appointment of the Cabinet of Deuntzer, parliamentarism is instituted in Denmark,<ref name=Nordic>{{cite book | first = Nils | last = Andrén | editor1-last = Allardt | editor1-first = Erik | editor2-last = Andrén | editor2-first = Nils | editor3-last = Friis | editor3-first = Erik J. | year = 1981 | title = Nordic Democracy - Ideas, Issues, and Institutions in Politics, Economy, Education, Social and Cultural Affairs of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden | publisher = Det Danske Selskab | isbn = 87-7429-040-1 | chapter = Five Roads to Parliamentary Democracy | page = 46 }}</ref> and with the exception of the Easter Crisis of 1920 no Danish government since 1901 has been formed against the vote of a majority of the members of the Folketing. * 30 August – A royal decree opens the King's Gate to Rosenborg Castle Garden, at the corner of Gothersgade and Kronprinsessegade, to the public.<ref name="Selskabet for Københavns Historie"/> * 25 September – The Ny Carlsberg Foundation is established.<ref name="Selskabet for Københavns Historie"/> * 28 November – Øksnehallen opens in the Meatpacking District in Copenhagen.<ref name="Selskabet for Københavns Historie"/>
===Undated=== * The first automobile is registered in Copenhagen. * The first kindergarten with public support in Denmark is established and inaugurated at Enghave Plads in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen. Private kindergartens had been known since 1871.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biblioteksvagten.dk/svar.asp?qaid=13706|title=Første børnehave og børnehavklasse i Danmark|publisher=Biblioteksvagten.dk|language=da|access-date=2010-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723080935/http://www.biblioteksvagten.dk/svar.asp?qaid=13706|archive-date=23 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Culture== ===Music=== * 4 October {{ndash}} Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 3 is for the first time performed in public in the small hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen.
==Sports== * 28 March {{ndash}} Skive IK is founded. * 14 July {{ndash}} Thorvald Ellegaard wins gold in men's sprint at the 1901 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
==Births== ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 20 February – Mogens Lassen, architect (died 1987) * 28 March {{ndash}} Carl Henrik Clemmensen, journalist and editor (died 1943)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 3 May – Ebbe Schwartz, football (died 1964)
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 9 July – Peter Sekaer, photographer (died 1950) * 25 August – Kjeld Abell, playwright (died 1961)
==Deaths== [[File:Carl Frederik Tietgen by P. S. Krøyer.jpg|thumb|120px|Carl Frederik Rietgen.]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 1 January {{ndash}} Sophus Schandorph, poet (born 1836) * 19 January – Henrik August Flindt, landscape architect (born 1822) * 6 February – Christian Frederik Lütken, zoologist ad naturalist (born 1827)
=== October{{ndash}}December === * 19 October – Carl Frederik Tietgen, industrialist and banker (born 1829) * 31 October – Frederik Christian Lund, painter and illustrator (born 1826) * 16 November – Theobald Stein, sculptor (born 1829) * 28 November – Ludvig Grundtvig, photographer (born 1836)
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Denmark year nav|20th century}} {{Year in Europe|1901|state=expanded}}
Category:1901 in Denmark Denmark Category:Years of the 20th century in Denmark Category:1900s in Denmark Denmark