1878 in Denmark

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

after their wedding ceremony. • 39 July The 11th Scandinavian Scientist Conference is held in Copenhagen. • 9 May The panserbatteri Helgoland is launched. • 21 December Princess Thyra of Denmark is wed to Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover in Copenhagen. The couple continue to Fredensborg Palace after the wedding ceremony. ==Culture==

Theatre, opera and ballet • 25 September The opera Drot og marsk is first performed at the Rotal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen. ==Births==

JanuaryMarch • 1 January – Agner Krarup Erlang, mathematician, statistician and engineer • 6 January – Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballet dancer (died 1970) • 10 February Johannes Berggreen, businessman (died 1963) • 13 March – Lau Lauritzen Sr., film director, screenwriter and actor (died 1938) • 11 April – Holger-Madsen, actor (died 1943) • 17 March Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect (died 1945) JulySeptember • 30 July Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, businessman, company founder (died 1964) • 2 August – Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, duchess of Västergötland (died 1958 in Sweden) • 25 September Holger Thiele, astronomer (died 1946) OctoberDecember • 9 November Povl Baumann, architect (died 1963) • 24 December – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, politician, former Danish prime minister (died 1943) ==Deaths==

• 6 March Harald Jerichau, painter (born 1851) • 4 December David B. Adler, businessman (born 1826) ==References==