24 January - The daily number of COVID-19 Deltacron infections has peaked in Denmark.[citation needed]
February
1 February – Denmark lifts almost all remaining COVID-19-related restrictions except for face mask rules due to the country's high vaccination rate. Provisions in the Epidemic Law (da) expire, meaning that COVID-19 no longer is classified as a "socially critical illness" (Danish: samfundskritisk sygdom).[citation needed]
29 March – Russo-Ukrainian War: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine speaks via video link to the Folketing, explaining the situation in the ongoing war and thanking the people of Denmark for their support.[2]
3 April – Russo-Ukrainian War: After the Bucha massacre makes headlines around the world, Denmark's foreign ministerJeppe Kofod says he supports investigations into whether the things Russian soldiers did in the Ukrainian town constitute war crimes.[3] Later in the year, Kofod hosts an event with his Dutch, German, and Ukrainian colleagues to seek international cooperation on holding any perpetrators accountable for war crimes committed during the invasion.[4]
Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, who is visiting Denmark, takes part in a summit in Copenhagen with the prime ministers of the five Nordic countries, including Mette Frederiksen of Denmark. At the end of the summit, the prime ministers issue a joint statement, where they promise increased cooperation and lay out their shared views on international relations, climate change, digitalization, and other matters.[5][6]
Russo-Ukrainian War: On the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Denmark at the end of World War 2, president Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine once again speaks to Denmark by video link. This time addressing the Danish people directly, the president draws parallels between World War 2 and the war in Ukraine. He also encourages Danes to light tealights in their windows (as is tradition in the evening on 4 May), this time also in solidarity with Ukraine.[7]
10–14 May – Eurovision Song Contest: The Danish song "The Show" by Reddi is eliminated in the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin. In the final, Ukraine gets 12 points from the Danish televote, and Greece gets 12 points from the Danish jury.
18 May – A summit, nicknamed the North Sea Summit, takes place in Esbjerg. Prime minister Mette Frederiksen and energy ministerDan Jørgensen of Denmark play hosts to the heads of government and energy ministers of Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the European Commission. The countries agree on the Esbjerg Declaration, in which they promise to increase use of offshore wind power and build more energy islands.[8][9]
14 June – Canada and Denmark end their competing claims for Hans Island by dividing the island roughly in half, ending what was referred to as the Whisky War.[10]
17 June – A Russian warship briefly enters Danish waters twice, north of the island Bornholm. Folkemødet (da), an annual political festival on Bornholm, was taking place at the time, and many prominent politicians were in attendance there. Prime minister Mette Frederiksen and foreign ministerJeppe Kofod were both on the island, with the latter calling the breach a "completely unacceptable Russian provocation".[11]
25 June – The Roskilde Festival returns, after being cancelled for the past two years due to the pandemic. This is the 50th anniversary of the festival.[13]
30 June – Mink case: The Mink Commission hands in its report to the Inquiry Committee of the Folketing. The Commission expresses severe criticism of prime minister Mette Frederiksen, saying that she "grossly misled" the public, but that she didn't knowingly order the culling of the mink without legal authority to do so.[14]
July
3 July – 2022 Copenhagen mall shooting: Three people are killed and several more are injured in a mass shooting at Field'sshopping mall in Copenhagen. Police chief inspector Søren Thomassen announces the arrest of a 22-year-old man, who is later revealed to have mental health issues.[15][16]
8 August – Defense ministerMorten Bødskov, along with his colleagues from Norway and Sweden, announce an agreement to increase military cooperation. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, agree that they may use each other's military infrastructure and airspace, and Denmark will station a military attaché in Stockholm. The agreement was reached to counter Russian aggression in the Baltic Sea region, as Russia has violated the territory of both Denmark and Sweden on several occasions in recent years. Bødskov warns that the region "will be marked by higher levels of tension than we have been used to".[18]
9 August – Authorities in Greenland announce that two civilian employees at Thule Air Base have tested positive for monkeypox.[19]
28 September – Queen Margrethe II announces changes to the titles of the descendants of her younger son prince Joachim. Effective from 1 January 2023, Joachim's children will no longer be allowed to call themselves prince or princess, but they remain in the line of succession. They will retain the title count or countess of Monpezat, given to both the queen's sons and all of their patrilineal descendants in 2008. Queen Margrethe justified the change for her grandchildren, who range in age from 10 to 23, as allowing them to "shape their own lives to a much greater extent without being limited by [royal duties]".[25]
29 September
The day after queen Margrethe announced that the children of her son prince Joachim would lose their titles of prince or princess from the new year, Joachim speaks to tabloids B.T. and Ekstra Bladet. He says that he and his immediate family are dismayed, and that his children have had their identity taken from them. According to the prince, the queen shared a plan with him on 5 May under which the children would have lost their titles only when each of them turned 25. Under such a plan, youngest child Athena, age 10, would not have lost her title until 2037.[26][27]
10 October – 2022 Danish general election: At the request of the prime minister of the Faroe IslandsBárður á Steig Nielsen, the Folketing approves a change to the election date in the Faroe Islands by a wide margin. The election is moved to 31 October, a day earlier than in Denmark proper and Greenland, as the previously chosen election day is a Faroese day of mourning for those who have died at sea.[35][36]
1 November – The 2022 Danish general election takes place (excluding the Faroe Islands). The left-wing red bloc wins a narrow majority, taking 90 seats, while the right-wing blue bloc wins 73 seats, and the centrist Moderates win 16 seats. Two new parties, the Moderates and the right-wing populistDenmark Democrats, enter the Folketing, increasing the number of parliamentary parties to 12.[38]
Venstre gets 23 seats, their worst result since 1988. The aforementioned Moderates and the Denmark Democrats, who both broke away from Venstre, get 16 and 14 seats respectively, some of the best showings ever for new parties. The Liberal Alliance (LA) gets 14 seats, their best result ever. The Danish People's Party (DF) goes from 16 to 5 seats, their worst result ever. The Conservatives drop to 10 seats, while the New Right rise to 6 seats.
As is tradition after an election, the party leaders take part in the "queen's round" (Danish: dronningerunde) where they, one at a time, have an audience with the queen. Prime minister Mette Frederiksen hands in her resignation to the queen (with the previous government continuing as a caretaker government), and is charged with forming a new government. She has previously said that she wants to form a broad government across the middle of the Folketing, but due to the narrow majority for the red bloc she can also choose a purely red government.[41]
21 November – 2022 FIFA World Cup: In a joint statement with six other associations, the Danish Football Association (DBU) announces that players will not wear OneLove rainbow armbands at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The decision comes after FIFA announces that the captains of any team wearing the band will receive a yellow card. Several qualifying teams had planned to wear the OneLove armband, which is part of an anti-discrimination campaign, in protest against the poor state of LGBT rights in Qatar.[45]
22 November – 2022 FIFA World Cup: A day after the OneLove armband decision, Helle Thorning-Schmidt attends the Denmark vs Tunisia match wearing a blue dress with rainbows on the sleeves. Thorning-Schmidt, who was prime minister of Denmark from 2011 to 2015, is in Qatar in her capacity as head of the DBU's Governance and Development Committee (Danish: Governance- og Udviklingskomite). Many fans and journalists were refused entry to the stadium for wearing rainbow-colored clothing.[46]
December
13 December – After 41 days of negotiations to form a government, the longest in Danish history,[47]acting prime minister Mette Frederiksen informs queen Margrethe II that she has reached an agreement to form a new government. It consists of Frederiksen's own Social Democrats, as well as Venstre and the Moderates. This constellation is unusual, as Danish politics is divided into a Social Democrats-led red bloc and a Venstre-led blue bloc, with either bloc typically having a majority and forming a government. A government including both major parties has been tried only once before in the post-war era, after the 1979 election. Another unusual feature is that it is a majority government, unlike most Danish governments who have relied on supporting parties to garner a majority.[nb 1] Hopeful of working with other parties despite having a majority already, Frederiksen promises to "search for ... broader majorities than the one we are presenting".[48][49]
26 November – France vs Denmark: Denmark loses 1–2 to France. After a goalless first half, Kylian Mbappé scores for France. Andreas Christensen equalizes shortly after, but Mbappé scores again towards the end of ordinary time.
6 November – Holger Rune wins the 2022 Rolex Paris Masters by defeating Novak Djokovic, 3–6, 6–3, 7–5, in an upset victory. The victory moves him up to number 10 in the ATP rankings, with CNN describing him as a "rising star". Rune beat five top 10 players during the course of the tournament.[57][58]
Other
12 March – Danish-Nigerian basketball player Gabriel Lundberg signs a contract with the Phoenix Suns, becoming the first Dane to sign with an NBA club. He plays his first match for the team on 4 April.
^The three parties have a combined 89 seats in the Folketing, one short of a majority. However, three of the four Faroese and Greenlandic members of the Folketing (da) are affiliated with sister parties to the governing parties, and as such the new government has a majority of 92 seats.
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