1915 in Denmark
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Events from the year 1915 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Christian X[1]
- Prime minister - Carl Theodor Zahle
Events
Some of the founders of the Society for Better Building Practices photographed during the founding meeting in Odense in June 1915
- 7 May - A Folketing election is held. As required to change the Constitution, the government called for the dissolution of both the Folketing and the Landsting in order for the new Rigsdag to be able to introduce the new constitution.
- 5 June - Women's suffrage is introduced in Denmark, women are given the right to vote in Rigsdag elections.[2]
- 27 June – Bedre Byggeskik, a late Danish incarnation of the Arts and Crafts Movement, is founded at a meeting in Odense as a reaction against the impoverished state of Danish architecture which they found to be a consequence of the Historicist style which had dominated the past decades.
Births
- 26 August – Niels Macholm, painter and graphic artist (died in 1997)
- 12 December – Tobias Faber, architect (died 2010)
Deaths
- 13 January – Barclay Raunkiær, Arabia explorer, author (born 1889)
- 11 September – Jens Birkholm, genre and landscape painter associated with the Funen Painters (born 1869)
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gollark: I think I ignored the thing for ages and accidentally had executive delegate powers?
gollark: Anyway, Thing of Things got raided one time, which was !!FUN!!.
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References
- "Christian X | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- Report from Denmark Archived 27 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine in European Database Women in Decision-making.
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