1856 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick VII
• Prime minister - Peter Georg Bang, Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ

Events

• 16 April Jacob Heinrich Moresco opens a shop with women's clothing and fashion accessories at Amagertorv 13 in Copenhagen.
• 27 April The Roskuilde–Korsør extension of the Copenhagen–Roskilde Railway is inaugurated.
• 13 July C. K. Hansen is founded.

Undated

• Seamen's Association of 1856 is founded.
• The Ceres Brewery is founded by Malthe Conrad Lottrup in Aarhus.

Births

• 18 March – Arnold Krog, designer
• 13 April – Urania Marquard Olsen, actress and theatre director
• 6 September - Hack Kampmann, architect
• 7 September Julie Laurberg, photographer
• 28 October – Mary Steen, photographer
• 18 November Joakim Skovgaard, artist

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 26 March – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter

JulySeptember

• 2 July – Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, author
• 14 July – Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect
• 20 July – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano
• 21 July – Emil Aarestrup, poet
• 15 September Severin Løvenskiold, baron

OctoberDecember

• 25 November Simon Aron Eiberchutz, businessman and philanthropist