1844 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian VIII[1]
- Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann
Events
- 4 July – A National Language Meeting is held at Skamlingsbanken.
Undated
- Søren Kierkegaard publishes Philosophical Fragments.
Culture
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- 11 June – Hans Christian Lumbye's Telegraph Galop premiers in Tivoli's Concert Hall in Copenhagen.[2]
Births
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January–March
- 12 January – Louis Hasselriis, sculptor (died 1912)
- 13 January – Peter Gottfred Ramm, military officer, landowner and company founder (died 1917)
- 1 February – Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes, economist, writer, and editor (died 1892)
April–June
- 11 April – Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, politician (died 1917)
- 12 June
- Klaus Berntsen, politician (died 1927)
- Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (died 1877)
July–September
- 13 July – Laurence Gronlund, lawyer, writer and political activist (died 1899 in the United States)
- 21 August – Carl Feilberg, journalist, editor and political commentator (died 1887 in Australia)
- 20 September – Emilie West, educator (died 1907)
October–December
- 12 Octoeber – Carl Wivel, restaurateur (died 1922)
- 9 November – Andreas Riis Carstensen, painter (died 1906)
- 1 December – Alexandra of Denmark, queen-empress consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1925 in the United Kingdom)[3]
- 4 December – Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, soldier, explorer and botanist (died 1903)
- 6 December – Rogert Møller, architect (died 1918)
Deaths
- 7 March – Christian Horneman, miniature painter (born 1765)
- 15 March – Adam August Müller, painter (born 1811)
- 24 March – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (born 1770)
- 6 April – Christian Jacob Theophilus de Meza, physician (born 1756)
- 16 December – Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (born 1770)
- 24 December – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (born 1803)