1897 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Christian IX
• Prime minister - Tage Reedtz-Thott, Hugo Egmont Hørring

  Events

• 29 May - St. Luke's Church in Frederiksberg is consecrated as the first new church to be built to relieve the pressure on Frederiksberg Church in the fast-growing Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen.
• 11 June — 1897 Gentofte train crash
• 7 August — Cabinet of Hørring is formed by Hugo Egmont Hørring of the conservative party Højre after Tage Reedtz-Thott's resignation as Council President,

  Undated

Births

• February - Erling Foss, engineer, businessman
• 29 August - Helge Rosvaenge, singer
• 29 October - Sigurd Langberg, actor
• 9 November - Arthur Jensen, actor
• 31 December - Liva Weel, actress

  Deaths

• 11 February – Christen Dalsgaard, painter
• 30 April - Carsten Henrichsen, painter
• 20 June – Johannes Steenstrup, natural scientist