1859 in Denmark
Events from the year 1859 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Frederick VII
- Prime minister - Carl Christian Hall, Carl Edvard Rotwitt
Events
- 6 January Aarhus Art Museum is founded.
- 2 February Tøxen's School is inaugurated in Køge.
- 15 April - An act provides for the Royal Danish Navy as well as the Botanical Gardens to leave Gammelholm which is instead to undergo urban redevelopment. The Navy's activities are moved to Nyholm while the Botanical Gardens relocate to their current site.
- 28 May - The poet Bernhard Severin Ingemann, a central figure of the Danish Golden Age, turns 70 and receives a golden horn from the women of Denmark at his home at Sorø Academy.
- 9 August The new Copenhagen Waterworks are inaugurated.
- 20 September - Copenhagen Zoo is inaugurated.
- 2 October - Illustreret Tidende, Denmark's first illustrated weekly, is published for the first time.
- 17 December - Frederiksborg Castle is devastated by fire but Frederiksborg Chapel is saved.
Undated
- House numbers are introduced in Copenhagen
- Albani Brewery is founded in Odense.
- Fabrikken Øresund is founded in Copenhagen.
- The second Blaagaard Seminarium is founded.
- Hotel Marienlyst opens in Helsingør.
Births
JanuaryMarch
- 31 March Hans Christian Viggo-Hansen, painter, sculptor and artisan metalsmith
AprilJune
- 21 April - Christian Sonne, politician
- 13 May - August Enna, composer
- 28 May Hanna Adler, educator
- 16 June - Max Henius, biochemist, co-founder of the American Academy of Brewing
- 25 June - Gerhard Heilmann, paleontologist, scientific illustrator
JulySeptember
- 18 August - Anna Ancher, painter
- 20 August – Emma Eleonore Meyer, painter
- 13 September - Anton Rosen, architect
- 22 September - Rudolph Sophus Bergh, composer
- 24 September - Christian Schmiegelow, businessman
OctoberDecember
- 22 October
- * Thomas Vilhelm Garde, naval officer, Greenland explorer
- * Eline Hansen, feminist
- 29 November - Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, painter
- 10 December - Peder Mørk Mønsted, painter
Deaths
- 13 March - Vilhelm Pedersen, artist, illustrator
- 22 June Ulrich Anton Schønheyder, naval officer
- 24 September - Emanuel Larsen, marine painter