1859 in Denmark

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{{Year in Denmark|1859}}

Events from the year 1859 in Denmark.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Frederick VII{{cite web |title=Frederick VII {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-VII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=21 June 2019 |language=en}}
  • Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall (until 2 December), Carl Edvard Rotwitt

Events

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  • 6 January {{ndash}} Aarhus Art Museum is founded.
  • 2 February {{ndash}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1800/1859.html|title=1758|language=da|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2011-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302014922/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1800/1859.html|archive-date=2 March 2012|url-status=dead}}
  • 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 {{ndash}} The new Copenhagen Waterworks are inaugurated.
  • 20 September – Copenhagen Zoo is inaugurated.{{cite web|url=http://www.zoo.dk/besogzoo/udstillingerogsevaerdigheder/aktuelleudstillinger.aspx|title=Jubilæumsudstilling - Zoo gennem 150 år|publisher=Copenhagen Zoo|access-date=2011-06-02|archive-date=27 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727115151/http://www.zoo.dk/besogzoo/udstillingerogsevaerdigheder/aktuelleudstillinger.aspx|url-status=dead}}
  • 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.

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  • 22 October
  • Thomas Vilhelm Garde, naval officer, Greenland explorer (died 1926)
  • Eline Hansen, feminist (died 1919){{cite web |title=Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Eline Hansen |url=https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/182/origin/170/query/eline%20hansen/ |website=www.kvinfo.dk |access-date=3 December 2019 |date=15 May 2003}}
  • 29 November – Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, painter (died 1925)
  • 10 December – Peder Mørk Mønsted, painter (died 1941)

Deaths

References

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