1. Incumbents

2. Events
    Date unknown 

3. Births
    January–June  July–December 

4. Deaths

5. References

6. See also

Events from the year 1877 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 7 January – The weekly Illustreret Familie Journal, now Familie Journalen, is published for the first time.
• 15 February – St. Paul's Church in Copenhagen is completed and opens for the first time.^[1]
• 18 February – St. Paul's Church in Copenhagen is inaugurated.
• 12 April – The Estrup government's adoption of a temporary national budget after dissolving Rigsdagen sets off the political struggle between Landstinget and Folketinget known as provisorietiden, "the provisional era". The opposition introduces their so-called visnepolitik, "whithering politics".^[2]
• 12 August – Six houses are washed away when Lønstrup is hit by a thunderstorm and torrential rain.^[3]
• 1 December – The Aarhus–Ryomgård section of the Grenaa Line railway is opened.

Date unknown

• Aarsdale Windmill is completed.
• Nielsine Nielsen and Johanne Gleerup are admitted to the University of Copenhagen as Denmark's first female university students.

Births

January–June

• 2 January – Johannes Schmidt, biologist credited with the 1920 discovery that eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn (died 1933)
• 12 February – Holger Scheuermann, surgeon after whom Scheuermann's disease is named (died 1960)
• 20 February – Albert Kongsbak, painter (died 1958)
• 28 February – Peder Møller, violinist and music teacher (died 1940)
• 7 March – Thorvald Ellegaard, track racing cyclist (died 1954)
• 15 March – Axel Frische, screenwriter, actor and film director (died 1956)
• 22 March – Einar Ambt, architect (died 1928)
• 11 April – Carl Alstrup, actor and film director (died 1943)
• 28 April – Frederik Draiby, architect, first city designer of Aarhus (died 1966)
• 29 May – Jens Hajslund, Olympic sport shooter, bronze medalist in team free rifle at the 1912 Summer Olympics (died 1964)
• 8 June – Thorvald Aagaard, composer (died 1937)
• 27 June – Axel Høeg-Hansen, architect (died 1947)

July–December

• 1 July – Kay Schrøder, Olympic fencer, competitor at the 1920 Summer Olympics (died 1949)
• 13 July – Erik Scavenius, politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 1942–1943 (died 1962)
• 10 August – Harald Bergstedt, writer, novelist, playwright and poet (died 1965)
• 22 August – Henning Eiler Petersen, mycologist, botanist and marine botanist (died 1946)
• 2 December – Carl Manicus-Hansen, gymnast, silver medalist in the team event in gymnastics at the 1906 Intercalated Games (died 1960)

Deaths

• 30 January – Rudolph Rothe, landscape architect (born 1802)
• 28 March – Henrik Nicolai Clausen, theologian and National Liberal Party politician (born in 1793)
• 25 April – Peter Faber, songwriter, telegraphy pioneer (born 1810)
• 16 November – Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (born 1844)

References

See also

• Grevillea 'Fire Sprite'
• Grevillea flabellifolia
• Grevillea gariwerdensis
• Grevillea georgeana
• Grevillea glabrata
• Grevillea globosa
• Grevillea glossadenia
• Grevillea guthrieana
• Grevillea heliosperma
• Grevillea hilliana
• Grevillea hockingsii
• Grevillea hookerana
• Grevillea hookeriana
• Grevillea huegelii
• Grevillea iaspicula
• Grevillea ilicifolia
• Grevillea infecunda
• Grevillea integrifolia
• Grevillea irrasa
• Grevillea jephcottii
• Grevillea johnsonii
• Grevillea 'Kentlyn'
• Grevillea laurifolia
• Grevillea linearis
• Grevillea linsmithii