Contents

• Incumbents
• Events
• Undated
• Births
• January–March
• April–June
• July–September
• October–December
• Deaths
• January –March
• April–June 2
• October–December 2
• References

← 1867 1866 1865 1868 in Denmark → 1869 1870 1871
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	Other events of 1868 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1868 in Denmark .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX ^[1]
• Prime minister – C. E. Frijs

Events

• 9 January – The 1868 Danish West Indies status referendum takes place.
• 15 January – Lucie Ingemannm painter (born 1792)
• 24 April – The Port of Esbjerg construction act provides for the construction of a new export port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, as a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour. ^[2]
• 7 August – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen is established.
• 8 August – HDMS Lindormen is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
• 4 October – The Fredericia–Aarhus railway line is inaugurated.
• 16 October – All Danish rights to the Nicobar Islands, which since 1848 had been gradually abandoned, are sold to the British as the last remains of Danish India.

Births

Deaths

References