1871 in Denmark

Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	Other events of 1871; List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1871 in Denmark.

Incumbents

The first train arrives to Frederikshavn Station at the opening of the Vendsyssel Line on 15 August.

2 January – The Stöðulög, laws on the constitutional standing of Iceland within the Danish realm, are passed.
2 May – The Skanderborg–Silkeborg railway line is inaugurated
5 October – Den Danske Landmandsbank, Hypothek- og Vexelbank i Kjøbenhavn, present-day Danske Bank, is founded.
15 August – The Vendsyssel Railway is inaugurated with the first train to Frederikshavn.
15 October – The Social Democratic party is founded by Louis Pio, Harald Brix and Paul Geleff.
8 November – At Lyksborg Slot, Princess Thyra gives birth to a daughter, conceived in a love affair with a cavalry lieutenant. The girl is adopted by a couple in Odense shortly after birth.

The first private kindergarten in Denmark is established in Copenhagen by writer Erna Juel-Hansen. Kindergarten with public support are not seen until 1901.^[2]
The Danish Women's Society, the world's oldest women's rights organization, is founded.^[3]

15 February – Martin Knudsen, physicist and researcher after whom the Knudsen gas state, the Knudsen number, and the Knudsen layer are named (died 1949)
20 March – Mogens Ballin, painter and silversmith (died 1914)

5 April – Søren Absalon Larsen, physicist active in the field of electroacoustics; the Larsen effect was named after him (died 1957)
13 June – Elna Munch, feminist, suffragist and politician, one of the three first women to be elected to the Danish parliament in 1918 (died 1945)
16 June – Ingeborg Suhr Mailand, educator (died 1969)

19 July – Lars Jørgen Madsen, multiple Olympic medalist in rifle shooting (died 1925)
29 July – August Paulsen, Danish-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1927)

2 November – Poul Heegaard, mathematician active in the field of topology, professor in mathematics at the University of Copenhagen 1910–1917, professor in mathematics at the University of Kristiania 1917–1941 (died 1948)
5 November – Susanne Lindberg, sports cyclist (died 1934)
12 November – Dagmar Hansen, cabaret singer and stage performer, Denmark's first pin-up girl (died 1959)
29 November – Arnold Busck, bookseller, company founder (died 1953)
10 December – Jens Christian Bay, Danish-American writer and librarian (died 1962)
14 December – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author (died 1960)

2 January – Niels Kjærbølling, ornithological writer and lithographer, founder of Copenhagen Zoo (born 1806)
28 January – Thorgeir Guðmundsson, Icelandic-Danish clergy and publisher (born 1797)
1 March – Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect (born 1817)
19 March – Frederik Oxholm, colonial administrator (born 1801)
28 March – Johan Vilhelm Gertner, portrait painter (born 1818)

9 October – Niels Sigfred Nebelong, historicist-style architect, resident architect for the Danish lighthouse authority (born 1806)
14 October – Johan Frederik Møller, painter and photographer (born 1686)
15 October – Oscar O'Neill Oxholm, military officer and landowner (born 1809)
2 December – Moritz Unna, photographer (born 1811)
4 December – Ole Sarvig, poet (born 1921)
12 December – Henrik Rung, composer, conductor and vocal pedagogue (born 1807)
27 December – Carl Ferdinand Allen, historian (born 1811)

^ "Christian IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
^ "Første børnehave og børnehavklasse i Danmark" (in Danish). Biblioteksvagten.dk. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
^ "How Danish women got the vote". www.kvinfo.dk. Retrieved 9 October 2013.