Dags-Telegrafen was established by J. Christian Ferslew in Copenhagen in 1864.

[3] The paper had a conservative stance and was the first of such newspapers in Denmark.

[3] In first half of the 1870s Dags-Telegrafen became one of the best selling newspapers in the country.

[1][2] An evening edition of the paper, Nationaltidende, was launched in 1876.

[1] Sophus Peter Tromholt published his auroral observations in Dags-Telegrafen[5] which folded on 30 June 1891.