1858 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII
• Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall

Events

• 10 November – The Danish Order of Freemasons is founded.
• 10 September – The statue of Frederick VI is unveiled at Frederiksberg Runddel.
• 1 November The new and taller Skagen Lighthouse is inaugurated as a replacement of the old Skagen Lighthouse from 1747.
• 18 November – The Institut Sankt Joseph is founded.

Undated

• Bernhard Hertz establishes his own workshop.
• The Institute for the Blind is taken over by the state and continued as the Rotal Institute for the Blind.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 12 January – Viggo Lindstrøm, actor and theatre director
• 6 March – Gustav Wied, writer
• 25 March – Charlotte Eilersgaard, author and editor

AprilJune

• 3 May Alfred Schmidt, painter
• 24 June Jacob Stilling-Andersen, businessman

JulySeptember

• 17 July – Kristine Marie Jensen, cookbook writer
• 31 August Povl Bentzon, engineer and land surveyor
• 6 September Henrik Grønvold, painter

OctoberDecember

• 2 November Niels Skovgaard, artist
• 27 October – Prince Valdemar of Denmark

Deaths

• 19 March – Carl Emil Moltke, diplomat and landowner
• 10 November – Johannes Theodorus Suhr, businessman