1882 in Denmark

Events from the year 1882 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian IX
 * Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup

Events

 * 2 January – FLSmidth, a supplier of cement production technology, is founded by Frederik Læssøe Smidth as a small "technical bureau" based in a single room of his mother's apartment.
 * 10 June – Hjedding Dairy is established as Denmark's first cooperative dairy.
 * 5 November – Carl Jacobsen's sculpture collection, which later forms the basis of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, is opened to the public in his winter garden.

Undated

 * A group of dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy.

January–March

 * 11 February – Knud V. Engelhardt, industrial designer (died 1931)

April–June

 * 5 April – Karen Callisen, geologist (died 1970)
 * 25 April – Christian Mortensen, world's oldest man of his day (died 1998)
 * 2 May – Sophus Black, telegraph manager and art collector (d. 1960)
 * 7 May – Thorvald Niss, painter (died 1905)

July–September

 * 19 September – Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer (died 1949)

October–December

 * 16 November – Kai Nielsen, sculptor (died 1924)

Deaths

 * 28 January – Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter (born 1815)
 * 24 August – Niels Christian Kierkegaard, craftsman and lithographer (nprm 1906)
 * 24 October – Margit Brandt, fashion designer (born 1945)
 * 4 December – Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (born 1802)