1862 in Denmark

Events from the year 1862 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

June

• 13 June Rosenborg Castle Garden plays host to a party for Nordic students.

July

• 19 July A banquet attended by Frederick VII and Carl XV of Sweden-Norway takes place in the Grand Hall of Børsen in Copenhagen.
• 25 July The Isted Lion is inaugurated in Glensburg.

September

• 2 September The first Aarhus and Randers railway stations oen when the new Aarhus–Randers railway line is inaugurated.

December

• 27 December The Swedish brig Daphne is wrecked off Skagen North Beach. A rescue boat from Skagen with 11 men capsizes and only two of the men survives, leaving eight women in Skagen as widows and 25 children fatherless.

Undated

The new University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum is inaugurated.

Culture

Art

• 25 July Herman Wilhelm Bissen' Isted Lion is unveiled in Flensburg Cemetery on the 12th anniversary of the Battle of Isted.
• Undated Wilhelm Marstrand paints the murals in Christian IV's Chapel at Roskilde Cathedral.

Births

January–]March

• 13 February Mikkel Hindhede, physician and nutritionist (died 1945)
• 17 February Henri Konow, naval officer and governor of the Danish West Indies /died 1939)
• 22 March – Malvina Mehrn, animal rights activist (died 1960).

AprilJune

• 26 April Niels Thorkild Rovsing, surgeon (died 1927)
• 10 June – Agnes Slott-Møller, painter (died 1937)

JulySeptember

• 28 July – Fritz Syberg, painter and illustrator (died 1939)
• 30 July Adda Ravnkilde, writer (died 1882)
• 5 August – Knud Arne Petersen, architect and artistic director (died 1943)

OctoberDecember

• 7 October Johanne Andersen, women's rights activist (died 1025)
• 15 October Christian Mølsted, painter (died 1930)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 4 January Joachim Wedell-Neergaard, diplomat (born 1802)
• 24 February – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, writer (born 1789)
• 3 March – Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach, theologian (born 1792)
• 5 June Catharine Wernicke, pianist (died 1789)

AprilJune

• 18 April Frederik Sødring, painter (born 1800)

JulySeptember

• 7 September Joseph Owen, businessman (born 1789 in Great Britain)

OctoberDecember

• 1 November – Eleonora Zrza, opera soprano (born 1797)
• 11 November Johan Carl Peter Prytz naval officer (born 1789)
• 23 December Frederikke Dannemand, royal mistress (born 1792)

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