1851 in Denmark
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Events from the year 1851 in Denmark.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – Frederick VII[1]
- Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Events
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- 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
[edit]- Hagen & Sievertsen is founded in Odense.
Culture
[edit]Art
[edit]- 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.[2]
Births
[edit]January–March
[edit]- 3 January – Viggo Johansen, painter (died 1935)
- 5 January – Johanne Bindesbøll, textile artist (died 1934)
- 26 February – Peter Kristian Prytz, physicist (died 1929)
- 10 March – Heinrich Wenck, architect (died 1936)
April–June
[edit]- 24 April – Harald Giersing, painter (died 1927)
July–September
[edit]- 16 August – Harald Jerichau, painter (died 1878)
October–December
[edit]- 21 November – Carl Locher, painter (died 1915)
July–September
[edit]- 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909)
October–December
[edit]- 12 November – Karl Jensen, painter (died 1933)
Deaths
[edit]- 9 March – Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism (born 1777)
- 11 July – Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter (born 1786)
- 25 August – Johan Christian Drewsen, businessman and agronomist (born 1777)
- 20 December – Gebhard Moltke, nobleman, landowner and civil servant (born 1764).[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Frederick VII | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ Madsen, Karl (1905). Wilhelm Marstrand 1807-1873. Kunstforeningen. pp. 168–. ISBN 1172123985.
- ^ Bratberg, Terje. "Gebhard Moltke". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
