1854 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII
• Prime minister – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Peter Georg Bang

Events

• 2 May Realskolen for Frederiksberg og Vesterbro is founded.
• 26 July The Cabinet of Ørsted adopts a helstatsforfatning.
• 12 December The Cabinet of Bang-Scheel is formed.
• 18 December A large National Liberal demonstration takes place in Copenhagen.

Undated

• Lumskebugten opens at Nordre Toldbod in Copenhagen.
• Sophus Berendsen establishes as wholesaler of iron and glass for the construction industry in Copenhagen.
• Arent Nicolai Dragsted establishes his own goldsmith's workshop on Bredgade in Copenhagen.
• The company Frichs is founded by Søren Frich in Aarhus.
• Lauritz Rasmussen establishes a zinc and bronze foundry at Åbenrå 24 in Copenhagen.

Births

• 13 January – Hector Frederik Estrup Jungersen, marine zoologist
• 26 January Hans Kaarsberg, writer
• 27 June Niels Neergaard, politician
• 15 August – L. A. Ring, painter
• 27 November Johan Ludvig Heiberg, philologist and historian
• 15 December Jens Peter Berthelsen, fencer

Deaths

• 30 January – Jacob Peter Mynster, theologian and bishop
• 23 March - Johannes Søbøtker, merchant, plantation owner and governor
• 9 July – Marie Toft, landowner
• 3 August Jacob Holm, businessman
• 29 November Poul Sporon, lawyer,