1868 in Denmark

Events from the year 1868 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian IX
 * Prime minister – C. E. Frijs

Events

 * 24 April – The Port of Esbjerg construction act provides for the construction of a new export port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, as a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour.
 * 7 August – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen is established.
 * 16 October – All Danish rights to the Nicobar Islands, which since 1848 had been gradually abandoned, are sold to the British as the last remains of Danish India.

Undated

 * Magasin du Nord is established in Aarhus as Emil Vett & Co. by Theodor Wessel and Emil Vett.

January–March

 * 7 January – Johannes Wilhjelm, painter (died 1938)
 * 9 January – S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist (died 1939)

April–June

 * 13 May – Peter Hansen, painter (d. 1928)
 * 25 April – Carl Wentorf, artist (d. 1914)
 * 26 May – Carl Johan Bonnesen, sculptor (d. 1933)

July–September

 * 17 july – Henri Nathansen, writer and stage director (d. 1944)

October–December

 * 25 October – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor (d. 1952)
 * 27 November – Wilhelm Hansen, businessman and art collector (died 1936)

Deaths

 * 16 January – Christopher Bagnæs Hansen, furniture maker (b. 1806)
 * 14 February – Emil Bærentzen, painter (b. 1799)
 * 8 March – Axel Kittendorff, lithographer (born 1721)
 * 10 March
 * Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (b. 1798)
 * Bernt Wilhelm Westermann, businessman (b. 1781)