1851 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick VII[1]
- Prime minister â Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Events
- February â Danish troops return to Copenhagen from the First Schleswig War.
- 1 May â Natalie Zahle launches a programme for the training of female private teachers, an initiative which will eventually develop into N. Zahle's School.
- 16 October â The first section of the LübeckâLüneburg railway is opened.
Undated
- Hagen & Sievertsen is founded in Odense.
Culture
Art
- 31 March â The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition opens.
- Wilhelm Marstrand's painting of Church-Goers Arriving by Boat at the Parish Church of Leksand on Siljan Lake is part of the exhibition.[2]
Births
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JanuaryâMarch
- 3 January â Viggo Johansen, painter (died 1935)
- 5 January â Johanne Bindesbøll, textile artist (died 1934)
- 9 February â Viggo Dorph-Petersen, architect (died 1837 in France)
- 26 February â Peter Kristian Prytz, physicist (died 1929)
- 10 March â Heinrich Wenck, architect (died 1936)
AprilâJune
JulyâSeptember
- 23 July â Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909)
- 16 August â Harald Jerichau, painter (died 1878)
OctoberâDecember
- 21 November â Carl Locher, painter (died 1915)
- 22 November â Karl Jensen, painter (died 1933)
Deaths
- 9 March â Hans Christian Ãrsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism (born 1777)
- 11 July â Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter (born 1786)
- 25 August â Johan Christian Drewsen, businessman and agronomist (born 1777)
- 20 December â Gebhard Moltke, nobleman, landowner and civil servant (born 1764).[3]
- 27 December â Sophie Thalbitzer, memorist (born 1774)