1970 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick IX
• Prime minister - Jens Otto Krag

  Events

• 2 February – An unofficial 24-hour strike closed all Danish shipyards. The strikers were demanding a one korne an hour increase in wages to compensate for tax increases.
• 6 February – A further 24-hour unofficial strike in the Danish shipyards to protest at the forced resignation of 26 union stewards that had organised the 2 February strike.
• 1 April – The 1970 Danish Municipal Reform reduces the number of municipalities from 1,098 to 277 and the number of counties from 25 to 14. The reform also abolishes the last privileges for market towns.

  Births

• 20 July – Mette Blomsterberg, pastry cook and television personality
• 29 September – Nicolas Winding Refn, film director

  Deaths

• 4 January – Prince Viggo, equestrian sportsman
• 19 February – Aage Leidersdorff, fencer
• 4 October – Christian Thomas, gymnast
• 3 November – Fleming Lynge, screenwriter
• November 30 - Vagn Bennike, Army engineer and second world war resistance leader in Jutland