1850 in Denmark

Events from the year 1850 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII
• Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke

Events

• 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.

Undated

• 30 March – Denmark sells the Danish Gold Coast to the United Kingdom

Culture

• 5 March – Hans Christian Andersen's poem Danmark, mit fædreland is published in the newspaper Fædrelandet.
• 8 May – 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.

Births

January–March

• 14 January – Elisabeth Wandel, painter (died 1926)
• 25 February – Anders Thiset, archivist (died 1917)
• 16 March – Agnes Lunn, painter and sculptor (died 1941)

April–June

• 10 June – Nielsine Nielsen, businesswoman (died 1916)
• 22 June – Frants Henningsen, painter (died 1908)
• 27 June – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, mathematician (died 1017)

July–September

• 10 July – Valdemar Gætje, master baker and the first director of the Union of Danish Employers and Master Craftsmen (died 1905)

October–December

• 2 November – Antonio Jacobsen, painter (died 1921)
• 29 December – Valdemar Irminger, painter (died 1938)

Deaths

• 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)
• 2 August – Carl Neergaard, landowner and politician (born 1800)
• 12 November – Christian Frederik Zeuthen, landowner (born 1794)
• 25 July – Adolph Stramboe, ballet dancer (born 1801)
• 38 December Heinrich Christian Schumacher, astronomer (died 1780)

Full date missing

• Thomas Jacobsen, violin maker (born 1810)

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