1888 in Denmark

Events from the year 1888 in Denmark.

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

• The Nordic Exhibition of 1888 took place in Copenhagen.^[2]

• The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Carl Thomsen for the painting Middag i en Præstegaard efter en Bispevisitats.

• 5 February – First public performance of Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 1 in the smaller hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen.

• 19 November – C. F. E. Horneman's opera Aladin premiers at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

• 6 March – Hans Christian Hagedorn, pharmachologist and Novo Nordisk co-founder (died 1971)
• 9 March – Ernestine Nyrop, textile artist (died 1975)
• 15 March – Sophus Nielsen, footballer (died 1963)
• 30 March – Einar Utzon-Frank, sculptor (died 1955)

• 26 April – Olaf Henriksen, Major League baseball player (died 1962)

• 15 July – Svend Bille, actor (died 1973)
• 28 July – Adam Fischer, sculptor (died 1968)
• 12 August
  • Prince Axel of Denmark (died 1964)
  • John Olsen, film producer (died 1959)
• 9 September – Frederik Zeuthen, economist (died 1959)

• 13 December – A. J. Iversen, cabinetmaker and furniture designer (died 1979)
• 15 December – Kaare Klint, architect (died 1954)
• 16 December – Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Olympic athlete (died 1965)

• 29 February – Wilhelm Sponneck, nobleman and politician, Danish finance minister (born 1815)
• 12 March – Frederik Wilhelm Dannemand, military officer and landowner (born 1813)
• 8 August – Jørgen Roed, painter (born 1808)
• 14 August – Carl Christian Hall, politician, Danish prime minister (born 1812)