1881 in Denmark

Events from the year 1881 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup

• 24 May – the May 1881 Danish Folketing election is held.

• 26 July – the July 1881 Danish Folketing election is held.

• 1 September – Rysensteen Gymnasium is established in Copenhagen.
• 21 September – the Statue of Niels Juel, created by the sculptor Theobald Stein, is unveiled in 1881 at Holmens Kanal.

• 1 October – The Herning–Skjern section of the Skanderborg–Skjern railway line opens.

• The Neye luggage company is established in Copenhagen.
• Danish Distillers open in Aalborg.
• De Danske Spritfabrikker is founded by C.F. Tietgen, Isidor Henius and C.A. Olesen through the merger of a number of existing distilleries.
• [[Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College

|Copenhagen Business College]] is founded.

• 15 January – Børge Nyrop, painter (died 1948)

• 24 April – Harald Giersing, painter (died 1927)
• 10 May – Karen Poulsen, actress (died 1053)

• 6 July – Nancy Dalberg, composer (died 1949)
• 3 August – Birger Wøllner Gaarn, composer and organist (died 1949)
• 23 July – Frits Holm, journalist, author and explorer (died 1930 in the United States)
• 26 July – Harriet Bloch, actress (died 1975)
• 11 September – Asta Nielsen, actress (died 1972)

• 16 October – Vilhelm Buhl, politician (died 1954)
• 16 October – Henry Rambusch, footballer (died 1954)
• 23 October – Axel Jørgensen, composer (died 1947)
• 13 November – Carl Schenstrøm, actor (died 1942)
• 25 November – Peder Gram, composer and organist (died 1956)
• 8 December – Anna Henriques-Nielsen, actress (died 1962)

• 9 March – Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Queen of Denmark (born 1796)
• 31 March – Princess Caroline of Denmark (born 1793)

• 11 May – Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, painter (born 1819 in Poland)
• 21 June – Emil Normann, painter (born 1798)
• 31 May – Emmerik Høegh-Guldberg, painter (died 1807)

• 20 September – Martin Hammerich, literary historian and educator (Born 1811)
• 24 September – Petrine Fredstrup, ballet dancer (born 1827)