1906 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX, Frederick VIII
• Prime minister – J. C. Christensen

  Events

• 12 September – The inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer makes a sustained but tethered flight in his self-built Ellehammer semi-biplane on the small outside Copenhagen, three years after the world’s first historical flight by the Wright brothers in 1903. The flight distance is 42 meters at an altitude of over 50 centimeters.
• 6 November – Ole Olsen founds Nordisk Film in Valby, Copenhagen, making it the oldest continuously operating film studio in the world.

  Undated

Births

• 10 October - Leo Mathisen, jazz musician and singer
• 8 November - H. C. Hansen, politician, former prime minister

  Deaths

• 29 January - HM Christian IX
• 13 February - Albert Gottschalk, painter
• 8 June - C. F. E. Horneman, composer
• 28 July - August Jerndorff, painter
• 29 October – Jacob Heinrich Moresco, businessman