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.