1850 in Denmark

Events from the year 1850 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Frederick VII{{cite web |title=Frederick VII {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-VII |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=21 June 2019 |language=en}}
Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke

30 March – All Danish Gold Coast Settlements are sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coast
16 July: The Danish army moves into Slesvig.

5 March {{ndash}} Hans Christian Andersen's poem Danmark, mit fædreland is published in the newspaper Fædrelandet.{{cite web|url=http://wayback-01.kb.dk/wayback/20100504123418/http://www2.kb.dk/elib/noder/hcamusik/danmark/index.htm|title=H.C. Andersen og musikken |language=Danish|website=Kulturstyrelsen|access-date=8 March 2023}}
8 May {{ndash}} Hans Christian Andersen's Danmark, mit fædreland is first time performed publicly as a song by a men's choir to a melody by Henrik Rung at a concert arranged by the Scandinavian Society in the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen to raise money for a monument commemorating the Danish victory in the Battle of Fredericia.

14 January {{ndash}} Elisabeth Wandel, painter (died 1926)
16 March – Agnes Lunn, painter and sculptor (died 1941)
22 June – Frants Henningsen, painter (died 1908)
27 June – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, mathematician (died 1916)
10 July {{ndash}} Valdemar Gætje, master baker and the first director of the Union of Danish Employers and Master Craftsmen (died 1905)
2 November {{ndash}} Antonio Jacobsen, painter (died 1921)
29 December {{ndash}} Valdemar Irminger, painter (died 1938)

20 January – Adam Oehlenschläger, poet (born 1779)
9 May – Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (born 1788.
12 May – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (born 1775)
12 November {{ndash}} Christian Frederik Zeuthen, landowner (born 1794){{cite web|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/C._Zeuthen|title=C. Zeuthen|language=Danish|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=16 June 2022}}
25 July {{ndash}} Adolph Stramboe, ballet dancer (born 1801)