1851 in Denmark
Events from the year 1851 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Frederick VII
- Prime minister - Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Events
- February Danish troops return to Copenhagen from the First Schleswig War.
- 1 May 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 The first section of the Lübeck–Lüneburg railway is opened.
Undated
- Hagen & Sievertsen is founded in Odense.
Culture
Art
- 31 March 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.
Births
JanuaryMarch
- 3 January – Viggo Johansen, painter
- 5 January Johanne Bindesbøll, textile artist
- 26 February Peter Kristian Prytz, physicist
- 10 March Heinrich Wenck, architect
JulySeptember
- 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter
- 16 August Harald Jerichau, painter
OctoberDecember
- 21 November Carl Locher, painter
- 22 November Karl Jensen, painter
Deaths
- 9 March – Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism
- 11 July – Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter
- 25 August – Johan Christian Drewsen, businessman and agronomist
- 20 December – Gebhard Moltke, nobleman, landowner and civil servant.