{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1904}} Events from the year '''1904 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 – Johan Henrik Deuntzer
==Events== thumb|7 August: The reinauguration of Ribe Cathedral. thumb|27 August: The inauguration of Odense Canal. ===February=== * 12 February – ''Politikens Ekstrablad'' is published for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1905.html|title=1905|language=da|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=25 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204235045/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1905.html|archive-date=4 February 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===June=== * 22 June {{ndash}} The trans-Atlantic passenger liner SS ''Norge'' departs from Copenhagen, embarking on what will become her last voyage. On 28 June, she wrecks off the American coast, resulting in more than 630 casualties.
===August=== * 7 August {{ndash}} The reinauguration of Ribe Cathedral. * 27 August {{ndash}} The inauguration of Odense Canal in Odense is attended by the king.
===September=== * 17 September – The first Danish cinema, ''Kosmorama'' at Østerbrogade in Copenhagen, opens.<ref name="kh1">{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1904.html|title=1904|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2010-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301060605/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1904.html|archive-date=1 March 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===December=== * 4 December – The K.U. or Konservativ Ungdom (Young Conservatives) is founded by Carl F. Herman von Rosen.
===Undated=== * April – The fingerprint technique is adopted by the Copenhagen Police Force.<ref name="kh1" /> * The electrified tramway is extended from Tuborg to Klampenborg.<ref name="kh1" /> * The first vacuum cleaners arrive in the country.<ref name="kh1" />
==Sports== * 21 August {{ndash}} Fremad Valby is founded. * 10 September {{ndash}} Thorvald Ellegaard wins silver in men's sprint at the 1904 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
==Births== * 26 March – Leck Fischer, writer and playwright (died 1956)<ref>{{cite dictionary|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Leck_Fischer|dictionary=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|title=Leck Fischer|last=Munch-Petersen|first=Erland|author-link=Erland Munch-Petersen|date=17 July 2011|language=da|access-date=22 January 2022|via=lex.dk}}</ref> * 5 May – Frederik Marcus Knuth (taxonomist) and count of Knuthenborg (died 1970) * 25 June – Poul Sørensen, politician (died 1969)
==Deaths== * 18 March {{ndash}} Carl Johan Frydensberg, composer (born 1835) * 24 September – Niels Ryberg Finsen (born 1860, in the Faroe Islands) * 6 December – Johan Bartholdy, composer (born 1853) * 7 December {{ndash}} C. M. T. Cold, naval officer and born (died 1863)
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