{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Year in Denmark|1969}} Events from the year 1969 '''in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch – Frederik IX<ref>{{cite web |title=Frederick IX {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-IX |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=16 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Hilmar Baunsgaard
==Events== * 20 February – The North Sea Continental Shelf cases are decided at the International Court of Justice. * 10 March – The Danish Technical Museum is inaugurated in Helsingør.<ref name=Selskabet1969>{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1969.html|title=1969|language=da|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2014-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726173722/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1969.html|archive-date=26 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 8 May – The Museum of Medical History is inaugurated in Bredgade in Copenhagen.<ref name=Selskabet1969/> * 28 May – The LO School is inaugurated by the Danish labour movement in Helsingør. * 15 June – The 750 years' anniversary of the Danish flag, Dannebrog, is celebrated throughout Denmark. 750 flags from all parts of Denmark are gathered on City Hall Square in Copenhagen.<ref name=Selskabet1969/> * 24 June – The proposed lowering of the electoral age from 21 to 18 is rejected by 78.6% of voters at the 1969 Danish electoral age referendum. * 1 July – Denmark legalizes visual pornography.<ref name=Selskabet1969/> * 30 September – The government sets up a temporary Environmental Committee. * 15 November – An estimated 20,000 people attend an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Copenhagen, marching from Østerbro Barracks to Christiansborg by way of the American Embassy.<ref name=Selskabet1969/>
===Full date missing=== * The Danish Liberal Centre Party is dissolved.
==Sport== ===Cycling=== * 22-24 August {{ndash}} Leif Mortensen wins gold in Men's amateur road race and Denmark wins silver in Men's team time trial at the 1969 UCI Road World Championships.
===Football=== * Boldklubben 1903 wins the 1969 Danish 1st Division in football.
==Music== * First performance in Denmark of Rued Langgaard's ''Music of the Spheres'', 51 years after it was composed.
==Births== [[File:Thomas Vinterberg Berlinale 2010.jpg|thumb|120px|Thomas Vinterberg.]] thumb|120px|Prince Joachim of Denmark ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 7 February – Chris Minh Doky, jazz bassist, composer, producer * 15 February {{ndash}} Anja Andersen, handball player * 20 February {{ndash}} Thomas Warming, illustrator, painter, and author * 19 May – Thomas Vinterberg, film director
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 9 April – Morten Klessen, politician<ref>{{cite web |title= Members: Morten Klessen |url=https://www.thedanishparliament.dk/members/morten-klessen |publisher=Folketing |access-date=28 February 2026 |archive-url= |archive-date= |location=Copenhagen, Denmark}}</ref> * 7 June – Prince Joachim, second son of Princess Margrethe
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 21 September – Mads Lundby Hansen, economist (died 2023) * 28 September {{ndash}} Anders W. Berthelsen, actor
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 27 October {{ndash}} Lykke Friis and former politician
==Deaths== [[File:Gundorph Albertus.png|thumb|120px|Gundorph Albertus.]] ===January{{ndash}}June=== * 2 January – Julius Bomholt, politician (born 1896) * 12 February – Victor Gram, politician (born 1910) * 27 March {{ndash}} Ingeborg Suhr Mailand, educator (born 1871) * 29 June {{ndash}} Poul Sørensen, politician (born 1904)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 9 November – Paul Berth, football player (born 1890) * 15 November {{ndash}} Johannes Juul, engineer (born 1887) * 15 November {{ndash}} Niels Larsen, sport shooter (born 1889) * 16 December – Leo Mathisen, jazz pianist, singer (born 1906) * 26 December – Gundorph Albertus, silversmith (born 1887)
==See also== *1969 in Danish television
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