1882 in Denmark

← 1881 1880 1879 1882 in Denmark → 1883 1884 1885
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1882 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1882 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• January 2 – 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.
• November 5 - 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dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy-

Births

• April 25 - Christian Mortensen, world's oldest man of his day (died 1998)
• September 19 - Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer (died 1949)
• November 16 - Kai Nielsen, sculptor (died 1924)

Deaths

• January 28 – Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter (born 1815)