1858 in Denmark

Events from the year 1858 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII
• Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall

Events

• 10 November – The Danish Order of Freemasons is founded.
• 10 September – The statue of Frederick VI is unveiled at Frederiksberg Runddel.
• 1 November The new and taller Skagen Lighthouse is inaugurated as a replacement of the old Skagen Lighthouse from 1747.
• 18 November – The Institut Sankt Joseph is founded.

Undated

• Bernhard Hertz establishes his own workshop.
• The Institute for the Blind (founded in 1811) is taken over by the state and continued as the Rotal Institute for the Blind.

Culture

Performing arts

• 19 December August Bournonville's ballet Flower Festival in Genzano receives its world premiere at the Royal Danish Theatre.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 12 January – Viggo Lindstrøm, actor and theatre director (died 1926)
• 6 March – Gustav Wied, writer (died 1914)
• 22 March Henrik Cavling, journalist (died 1933)
• 25 March – Charlotte Eilersgaard, author and editor (died 1922)
• 29 March Carl Nicolai Starcke, sociologist, educator, politician and philosopher (died 1926)

AprilJune

• 3 May Alfred Schmidt, painter (died 1938)
• 24 June Jacob Stilling-Andersen, businessman (died 1933)

JulySeptember

• 17 July – Kristine Marie Jensen, cookbook writer (died 1923)
• 31 August Povl Bentzon, engineer and land surveyor (died 1943)
• 6 September Henrik Grønvold, painter (died 1940)
• 15 September Ingeborg Maria Sick, writher and philanthropist (died 1951)

OctoberDecember

• 1 October , businessman (died 1025)
• 2 November Niels Skovgaard, artist (died 1938)
• 27 October – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (died 1939)

Deaths

• 2 February Peter Kierkegaard, clergyman and politician (born 1805)
• 19 March – Carl Emil Moltke, diplomat and landowner (born 1773)
• 10 November – Johannes Theodorus Suhr, businessman (born 1792)
• 8 December Haldur Grüner, economist, educator (born 1818 in Norway)

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