{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Year in Denmark|1973}} Events from the year 1973 '''in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch – Margrethe II<ref>{{cite web |title=Margrethe II {{!}} queen of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margrethe-II |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=16 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Anker Jørgensen (until 19 December), Poul Hartling
==Events== * 1 January – Denmark joined the European Economic Community (EEC) along with Ireland and the United Kingdom. * 4 December – 1973 Danish parliamentary election is held, it is later to become known as the ''Landslide Election'' ({{langx|da|Jordskredsvalget}}), because 5 new parties got elected, and more than half the members of the parliament were replaced.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.um.dk/Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap6/6-18.asp|title=Denmark - History - Political upheaval, economic crisis and renewed growth Since 1973|publisher=Udenrigsministeriet|access-date=2009-11-06|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070110120624/http://www.um.dk/Publikationer/UM/English/Denmark/kap6/6-18.asp |archive-date = January 10, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Sports== ===Badminton=== * 12–17 March – 1973 Denmark Open **Elo Hansen and Ulla Strand win gold in mixed doubles
===Handball=== * 1 May – GOG Håndbold is founded
==Births== [[File:Bjarne Corydon 20131021.jpg|thumb|120px|Bjarne Corydon.]] [[File:Nikolaj Lie Kaas at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. 01.jpg|thumb|120px|Nikolaj Lie Kaas.]] [[File:Barbara Beatrice Bertelsen, 2023 (cropped).jpg|thumb|120px|Barbara Bertelsen.]] ===January–March=== * 4 January – Frank Høj, cyclist * 10 January – Jakob Cedergren, actor * 11 March – Bjarne Corydon, politician, editor-in-chief * 16 March – Inger Støjberg, politician * 24 March – Mette Jacobsen, freestyle and butterfly swimmer * 29 March – Kasper Holten, stage director
=== April–June=== * 22 May – Nikolaj Lie Kaas, actor
===July–September=== * 29 April – Yildiz Akdogan, politician * 5 July – Camilla Andersen, handball player * 23 July – Thomas Ebert, rower * 24 September – Barbara Bertelsen, civil servant * 25 September – Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, politician
===October–December=== * 9 October – Thomas Frank, football manager
==Deaths== [[File:Asger Jorn (1963) by Erling Mandelmann.jpg|thumb|120px|Asger Jorn.]] ===January–March=== * 18 March – Lauritz Melchior, singer (died 1890)
===April–June=== * 9 April – Sigurd Swane, painter (born 1879) * 1 May – Asger Jorn, painter (born 1914)
===July–September=== * 9 August – Christian Arhoff, actor (born 1893)
===October–December=== * 23 November – Helga Foght, textile artist (born 1902) * 30 December – Aage Bendixen, actor (born 1887)
==See also== *1973 in Danish television
==References== {{Reflist}}
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