See also: 2004 in Denmark , other events of 2005, 2006 in Denmark and the list of 'years in Denmark' .

Events

• 8 January - Denmark is hit by the most powerful storm since the 1999 hurricane. Some areas are flooded as the wind causes very high seawater levels, but overall the damage is limited.
• 15 January - The Copenhagen Opera is opened.
• 18 January - Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls for parlamentary elections, scheduled for 8 February.
• 8 February - 2005 Danish parliamentary election: The coalition of the Liberal Party and the Conservative People's Party is reelected. The Danish Social Liberal Party almost doubles their seats from 9 to 17, while the Liberal Party loses 4 and the Social Democrats loses 5. Following their failure to gain enough votes, Mogens Lykketoft steps down as leader of the Social Democrats, Holger K. Nielsen steps down as leader of the Socialist People's Party, and Mimi Jakobsen steps down as leader of the Centre Democrats. The Centre Democrats and the Christian Democrats fail to get above the 2-percent limit, the Centre Democrats for the second time in a row.
• 18 February - Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen presents his updated cabinet.
• 27 February
  • - Danmarks Statistik reports that there is ca. 625 people over a 100 years old in Denmark.
  • - The coldest day so far in Denmark this year. -11.1 degrees Celsius measured in Karup in Midtjylland . Source DMI.
• 03 March - At 19.17 the 3500-ton freighter, M/V Karen Danielsen, crashes into the Western bridge of the Great Belt Bridge, 800m from Funen. All traffic across the bridge is closed, efficiently separating Denmark in two.
• 04 March
  • - The Great Belt Bridge is reopened shortly after midnight after the freighter M/V Karen Danielsen was pulled free, and inspectors found no structural damage to the bridge.
  • - The coldest day so far in Denmark this year. -20.2 degrees Celsius measured on Tune Airport near Roskilde. This is also the coldest day in the month of March since 1987. Source DMI.
• 12 April - The Social Democrats elect a new leader to replace Mogens Lykketoft who resigned after losing the 2005 Danish parliamentary election. Helle Thorning-Schmidt is elected ahead of Frank Jensen with 24,261 votes (53%) against 21,348 votes (47%).

Arts and literature

Sports

Deaths

• 17 February - Jens Martin Knudsen