1874 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, Christen Andreas Fonnesbech

  Events

• 1 January – The first issue of fashion journal Nordisk Mønster-Tidende, present-day women's magazine Femina, is published.
• 5 January – Iceland is granted a constitution and limited home rule within the Danish realm.
• 14 July – Prime Minister Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg resigns, and is replaced by Christen Andreas Fonnesbech.
• 15 August – Esbjerg Harbour is inaugurated.
• 15 October – The Old Stage, the original of the Royal Danish Theatre, is inaugurated.

  Date unknown

• Louis Poulsen, a lighting manufacturing company, is founded.
• The 25 øre coin is introduced on the decimalisation of the krone. It remains in circulation until 2008, when it is demonetised as the lowest-denomination coin in the country.

  Births

January–June

• 10 January – Louis Larsen, gymnast, silver medalist at the 1906 Intercalated Games
• 22 January – Frants Nielsen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics
• 31 January – Harald Tandrup, writer
• 20 February – Ebbe Kornerup, writer and painter
• 5 February – Gunnar Asgeir Sadolin, businessman
• 1 March
• * August Hesselbo, pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist
• * Jens Lind, apothecary, botanist and mycologist
• 22 March – Ove Paulsen, botanist, professor at the Pharmaceutical College in Copenhagen 1920–1947
• 12 May - Sigrid Kähler, artist
• 1 June – Peter Hertz, art historian
• 19 June – Peder Oluf Pedersen, engineer and physicist, IEEE Medal of Honor recipient in 1930
• 22 June – Viggo Jensen, weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete, Olympic gold medalist and silver medalist in weightlifting at the 1896 Summer Olympics

  July–December

• 23 July – Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen, sculptor and ceramist, model master of Bing & Grøndahl 1897–1917, artistic director of Norden 1917–1925
• 18 August – Christian Pedersen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1908 Summer Olympics
• 22 October – Thora Daugaard, women's rights activist, pacifist, editor and translator
• 1 November – Karl Albert Hasselbalch, physician and chemist, pioneer in the use of pH measurement in medicine
• 15 November – August Krogh, professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen 1916–1945, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1920
• 1 December – Johannes Friis-Skotte, politician, Minister of Public Works 1924–1926 and 1929–1935
• 7 December – Carl Cohn Haste, blind pianist, organist and composer, music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, first president of the Danish Association of the Blind
• 23 December – Viggo Wiehe, stage and film actor

  Deaths

• 20 February – Holger Roed, painter
• 6 March – Louise Rasmussen, ballet dancer and stage actor
• 20 March – Hans Christian Lumbye, composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, including the Champagne Galop
• 28 March – Peter Andreas Hansen, astronomer, Copley Medal recipient in 1850
• 1 October – Ludvig Bødtcher, lyric poet
• 9 November – Just Mathias Thiele, writer and art historian