1846 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VIII
• Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann

Events

• 5 May The Society of the Friends of Peasants is established in Copenhagen.

Undated

• The of Den højere Dannelsesanstalt for Damer, the first secondary education school for women, is established by Annestine Beyer and Emil Bojsen.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 25 January August Jerndorff, painter
• 8 March Gerhard Faye, factory manager
• 19 March Oscar Wanscher, surgeon
• 22 March Holger F. Struer, chemist and company founder

OctoberDecember

• 9 October – Holger Drachmann, poet, dramatist and painter
• 2 November – Holger Roed, painter
• 15 October – Dumme Lort, writer

Deaths

• 27 January - Anne Cathrine Collett, landowner
• 24 July Christian Holm, painter