1903 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch – HM Christian IXChristian IX of DenmarkChristian IX was King of Denmark from 16 November 1863 to 29 January 1906.Growing up as a prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which had ruled Denmark since 1448, Christian was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Danish...
- Prime minister – Johan Henrik DeuntzerJohan Henrik DeuntzerJohan Henrik Deuntzer was a Danish politician, member of the Liberal Venstre party until 1905 where he joined the Danish Social Liberal Party...
Events
- March 2 – A Social DemocratSocial Democrats (Denmark)The Social Democrats , is a Danish political party committed to the political ideology of social democracy. It is the major coalition partner in Denmark's government since the 2011 parliamentary election, and party leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the current Prime Minister of Denmark...
is elected as lord mayorLord MayorThe Lord Mayor is the title of the Mayor of a major city, with special recognition.-Commonwealth of Nations:* In Australia it is a political position. Australian cities with Lord Mayors: Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle, Parramatta, Perth, Sydney, and Wollongong...
in CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
for the first time.
Undated
- The cakewalkCakewalkThe Cakewalk dance was developed from a "Prize Walk" done in the days of slavery, generally at get-togethers on plantations in the Southern United States. Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around"...
reaches Copenhagen. - Motor ferries start to operate in the Port of CopenhagenPort of CopenhagenThe Port of Copenhagen is the largest Danish seaport and one of the largest ports in the Baltic Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of around 18.3 million tonnes of cargo.-Statistics:...
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Births
- April 21 – Hans HedtoftHans HedtoftHans Hedtoft Hansen was Prime Minister of Denmark from 13 November 1947 to 30 October 1950 as the leader of the Cabinet of Hans Hedtoft I and again from 30 September 1953 to 29 January 1955 as the leader of the Cabinet of Hans Hedtoft II.Hedtoft was a Social Democrat, and had taken over the...
, politician, former prime minister (died 19531953 in Denmark-Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederik IX* Prime minister – Erik Eriksen , Hans Hedtoft-Births:* 26 January – Anders Fogh Rasmussen, politician former Danish Prime Minister, Secretary General of NATO...
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Deaths
- March 12 – Vilhelm KyhnVilhelm KyhnPeter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn, was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough...
, painter and educator (born 18191819 in Denmark-Undated:* Denmark's first steamship, SS Caledoniam, a paddle steamer baught used in England, begans operations as a mail steamer between Copenhagen and Kiel.-Births:* March 30 – Vilhelm Kyhn, painter and educator...
) - December 11 – Heinrich TønniesHeinrich TønniesJohan Georg Heinrich Ludwig Tønnies was an early German-Danish photographer who had a studio in Aalborg, Denmark.-Biography:Born in Grünenplan, Germany, he was trained as a glass painter and cutter....
, photographer (born 18251825 in Denmark-Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick VI* Prime minister – Otto Joachim-Undated:* The Copenhagen Art Society is founded by a circle of the most influential figures of the Danish art world during the Danish Golden Age.-Births:...
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