1861 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick VII[1]
- Prime minister â Carl Christian Hall
Events
January
- 1 January â The newspaper Grønlandsposten is published for the first time.
- 19 January â The Danish Shooting Association is established.
June
- 14 June â The 1861 Danish Folketing election is held. Carl Christian Hall remains Prime Minister following the elections.
July
- July â The archaeological excavations at the Jelling Stones are resumed under supervision of Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae and later that month visited by King Frederik VII personally.
August
- 25 August â St. John's Church in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen is consecrated at a ceremony attended by King Frederik VII. It is first church to be built outside the city's old fortification ring when it was decommissioned.[2]
September
- 13 September â The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark is founded.
December
- 21 December â Ane Cathrine Andersdatter is executed for the murder of three of her children as the first perosn in Denmark since the adoption of the Constitution of Denmark.
Undated
- The Maritime and Commercial Court is established.
- The new Copenhagen University Library is completed.
Publications
- 2 March â New Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
Births
JanuaryâMarch
- 10 February â Walter Christmas, author (died 1924)
- 14 February â Peter Ilsted, artist and printmaker (died 1933)
- 2 March â Anton Hegner, musician and composer (died 1915)
AprilâJune
- 1 April â Ivar Knudsen, engineer (died 1920)
- 2 April â Christian Steen, publisher (born 1766)
- 27 April â Johan Skjoldborg, author (died 1936)
- 29 April â Holger Hvidtfeldt Jerichau, painter (died 1900)
- 17 May â Ulrik Plesner, architect (died 1933)
- 26 May â Birgitte Berg Nielsen, educator and activist (died 1951)
JulyâSeptember
- 1 August â Vibeke Salicath, publisher (died 1921)
- 10 September â Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor (died 1941)
- 25 September â Rasmus Andersen, sculptor (died 1930)
OctoberâDecember
- 6 October â Ludvig Sylow (DBU)m football executive (died 1933)
- 9 October â Bodil Hauschildt, photographer (died 1951)
Deaths
JanuaryâMarch
- 31 January â Ernst Meyer, politician (born 1797)
AprilâJune
- 2 April
- Peter Georg Bang, politician and jurist, prime minister of Denmark (born 1797)
- * Christian Steen, bookseller and publisher (born 1786)
- 1 May â Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, artist and engraver (born 1803)
- 22 May â Johannes Georg Forchhammer, physicist (died 1938)
JulyâSeptember
- 7 August â Ludvig Brandstrup, sculptor (died 1935)
- 28 August â Jonas Collin, philanthropist (born 1776)
- 3 September â Henrik Gamst, businessman, politician and landowner (born 1788)
- 18 September â Julius Friedlænder, painter (born 1810)
OctoberâDecember
- 12 October â Kirstine Meyer, physicist (died 1941)
- 12 November â Christen Niemann Rosenkilde, actor (born 1786)
- 30 November â Julius Høegh-Guldberg, military officer (born 1779)
- 6 December â George Ryan, businessman
- 21 December â Ane Cathrine Andersdatter, murderer, last oerson to be executed in Denmark in times of peace (born 1829)
- 26 December â Johannes Steenfeldt, scientific illustrator (died 1799)
