1906 in Denmark

← 1905 1904 1903 1906 in Denmark → 1907 1908 1909
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1906 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1906 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Christian IX (until 29 January),^[1] Frederick VIII^[2]
• Prime minister – J. C. Christensen

• 30 January – The proclamation of Frederik CIII as King of Denmark.
• 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 island of Lindholm [da] 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.^[3]

• 11 November – Carl Nielsen's opera Maskarade premieres at the Royal Danish Theatre-

• 5 August – Thorvald Ellegaard wins gold in men's sprint at the 1906 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

• 27 February – Søren Kristian Toubro, engineer and Larsen & Toubro co-founder (died 1982)
• 2 October – Arne Sørensen, politician (died 1978)
• 10 October – Leo Mathisen, jazz musician and singer (died 1969)
• 8 November – H. C. Hansen, politician, former prime minister (died 1960)

• Aage Thaarup, fashion designer (died 1987)

• 29 January – Christian IX (born 1818)^[1]
• 13 February – Albert Gottschalk, painter (born 1866)
• 7 March – Oscar Wanscher, surgeon (born 1846)^[4]

• 12 April – Søren Anton van der Aa Kühle, brewer and businessman (born 1849)
• 5 May– Andreas Riis Carstensen, painter (born 1844)
• 8 June – C. F. E. Horneman, composer (born 1840)

• 28 July – August Jerndorff, painter (born 1846)

• 29 October – Jacob Heinrich Moresco, businessman (born 1828)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1906 in Denmark.