The following is a list of events that occurred in the year 1993 in Denmark.

Incumbents

* Monarch -

Margrethe II Margrethe II (; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly ...

* Prime minister - Poul Schlüter (until January 25),

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Poul Oluf Nyrup Rasmussen (, informally Poul Nyrup, born 15 June 1943) is a retired Danish politician, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 25 January 1993 to 27 November 2001 and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) from ...

Events

Undated

The arts

Sports

Badminton

* Lillerød BK wins Europe Cup. * 1721 March Jon Holst-Christensen and

Thomas Lund Thomas Haubro Lund (born 2 August 1968) is a retired badminton player from Denmark who affiliate with Kastrup Magleby club. Career Lund was one of the world's leading doubles specialists of the 1990s, particularly in mixed doubles. He was a s ...

win gold in men's double and Jon Holst-Christensen and Grete Mogensen win gold in mixed double at the 1993 All England Open Badminton Championships. * 31 May 6 June Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and two bronze medals at the

1993 IBF World Championships The 1993 IBF World Championships ( World Badminton Championships) were held in Birmingham, England in 1993. Venue * National Indoor Arena Medalists Medal table Events External linksBWF Results {{World badminton champs BWF World Champi ...

Cycling

* 18 April —

Rolf Sørensen Rolf Sørensen (born 20 April 1965) is a former Danish professional road bicycle racer. He is currently working as a cycling commentator and agent. Born in Helsinge in Denmark, Sørensen moved to Italy at the age of 17, where he has lived sin ...

wins the

Liège–Bastogne–Liège Liège–Bastogne–Liège , also known as ''La Doyenne'' ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.Cycling Weekly, UK, 13 March 1993 First run in 1892, it is the oldest of the five ''Cycling monument, Monuments'' of the Eur ...

classic road cycling race. * 1 May —

wins the Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop. * July 3–25 —

1993 Tour de France The 1993 Tour de France was the 80th edition of the Tour de France, taking place between July 3-25, 1993. It consisted of 20 stages, over a distance of . The winner of the previous two years, Miguel Induráin, successfully defended his title. Th ...

** 8 July –

Jesper Skibby Jesper Skibby (born 21 March 1964 in Silkeborg, Denmark) is a retired professional road racing cyclist. He won at least one stage at each of the major tours. He was one of the most popular in Denmark, not only because of his talent, but also bec ...

wins the 5th stage. ** 10 July —

Bjarne Riis Bjarne Lykkegård Riis (; born 3 April 1964), nicknamed ''The Eagle from Herning'' (), is a Denmark, Danish former professional road bicycle racer who won the 1996 Tour de France. For many years he was the owner and later manager of the Oleg Tink ...

wins the 7th stage. ** July 25 —

finishes in fifth place in the

. * 6 October —

wins the

Milano–Torino Milano–Torino is a semi classic European single day cycling race, between the northern Italian cities of Milan and Turin over a distance of 199 kilometres. The event was first run in 1876 making it the oldest classic race in the world. The ...

road cycling race. *

(DEN) and Jens Veggerby (DEN) win the

Six Days of Copenhagen The Six Days of Copenhagen is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event was first held in 1934. The event is held at the Ballerup Super Arena Ballerup Super Arena (formerly Siemens Arena) is a multi-purpose i ...

six-day track cycling race. * Unknown date Jens Veggerby wins gold in UCI Motor-paced at the

1993 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 1993 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were held at Vikingskipet in Hamar, Norway, from 17 to 29 August 1993. Eleven events were held, eight for men and three for women, with five world records being set. In the same period, the 1993 UCI ...

Football

* 20 May OB wins the 1992–93 Danish Cup by defeating

AaB Fodbold AaB, (full name: ''Aalborg Boldspilklub'', ) internationally referred to as Aalborg BK, commonly known internationally as Aalborg BK and occasionally referred to as AaB Aalborg, is a professional football club based in Aalborg, Denmark. The club ...

20 in the final.

Other

* 12 February — Gert Bo Jacobsen becomes WBO welterweight champions in boxing. * 5 December —

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

wins silver the 1993 World Women's Handball Championship in Norway after being defeated 23–22 by

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

in the final.

Births

JanuaryMarch

* 9 January – Nicolai Brock-Madsen, footballer * 10 January – Jens Jønsson, footballer * 28 February –

Emmelie de Forest Emmelie Charlotte-Victoria de Forest (born 28 February 1993) is a Danish-Swedish singer and songwriter. She Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song "Only Teardrops" and w ...

, singer * 12 March – Jeppe Tverskov, footballer * 16 March –

Andreas Cornelius Andreas Evald Cornelius (born 16 March 1993) is a Danish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for F.C. Copenhagen, Copenhagen and the Denmark national football team, Denmark nationa ...

, footballer

AprilJune

* 14 April – Josephine Skriver, model * 20 April – Viktor Bromer, swimmer * 7 May –

Isabella Arendt Isabella Arendt Laursen (born 7 May 1993 in Fredericia) is a Danish politician who was the leader of the Christian Democrats from 2019 to 2022. Arendt lives in Copenhagen and is currently studying political science at Copenhagen University. Pol ...

, Conservative politician * 8 May –

Nicolaj Thomsen Nicolaj Thomsen (born 8 May 1993) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Danish 1st Division club B.93. Thomsen was born in Skagen and played youth football with Skagen IK and Frederikshavn fI before starting his pr ...

, footballer * 14 May –

Nicole Broch Larsen Nicole Broch Estrup () (born 14 May 1993) is a Danish professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and the Ladies European Tour (LET). Broch Estrup started playing golf at the age of nine. She reached 11th on World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2012 ...

, golfer * 18 May –

Rikke Iversen Rikke Iversen (born 18 May 1993) is a Danish handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Denmark women's national handball team, Danish national team. She is the sister of Sarah Iversen who plays for Ikast Håndbold. She started playing handball ...

, handball player * 27 May – Julie Brochorst Andersen, actress * 6 June –

Alba August 1993 births Living people Actresses from Copenhagen Danish film actresses Danish television actresses English-language singers from Sweden Swedish child actresses Swedish film actresses Swedish television actresses 21st-century Danish act ...

, actress * 21 June – Caroline Brasch Nielsen, model

JulySeptember

* 6 July – Bassel Jradi, footballer * 12 July – Lukas Lerager, footballer * 13 July – Linnea Berthelsen, actress * 22 August - Benny Jamz, rapper * 3 September Ida Praetorius. ballet dancer

OctoberDecember

* 5 October –

Kevin Magnussen Kevin Jan Magnussen (; born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for W Racing Team, WRT and the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, RLL as a factory driver f ...

, racing driver * 22 October – Jessica Dinnage, actress * 8 November – Emil Nielsen, footballer * 22 December – Hedvig Rasmussen, rower

Deaths

* 6 January Richard Mortensen, painter (born

1910 Events January * January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military. * January 8 – By the Treaty of Punakha, t ...

) *26 January - Robert Jacobsen, painter and sculptor (born

1912 This year is notable for Sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the ''Titanic'', which occurred on April 15. In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skippin ...

) * 7 April Tonny Ahm, badminton player (born

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip ...

) *30 May - Henry Heerup, painter and sculptor (born

1907 Events January * January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Moment magnitude scale, Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000. February * February 9 – The "Mud March (suffragists), Mud March", the ...

) *15 October – Dan Turèll, writer (born

1946 1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...

) *29 October Aage Dons, author (born

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 10 – The Aceh Sultanate was fully annexed by the Dutch forces, deposing the last sultan, marking the end of the Aceh War that have lasted for al ...

) * 30 October Pauli Jørgensen, football player (born

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

)

References

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