1865 in Denmark

The following lists events that happened during 1865 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – Christian Albrecht Bluhme (until 6 November), C. E. Frijs

Events

• 6 April – Hans Christian Andersens romantic comedy When the Spaniards Were Here premiers at the Royal Danish Theatre.
• 30 May The 1865 Danish RigsrÃ¥dets Folketing election is held.
• 31 May 14 June It is possible for the public to see Constantin Hansen's monumental painting of The Danish Constituent Assembly in Alfred Hage's home in the Harsdorff House on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. The entrance fee goes to veterans of the Second Schleswig War.
• 17 June A fire breaks out in the eastern part of Nørresundby and ends up destroying much of the town.
• 27 September A deputation from Sleswig visits Copenhagen.
• 7 October The railway line across the island of Funen from Nyborg by the Great Belt via to Middelfart by the Little Belt openes.

Births

• 9 June – Carl Nielsen, composer (died 1931)
• 13 September Sophus Claussen, writer (died 1931)
• 16 August Danish-American engineer (died 1952)
• 2 December Niels Nielsen, mathematician (died 1931

Undated

• Pauline Schmidt, magician

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 18 March Christian Günther von Bernstorff, statesman and landowner (born 1769))

AprilJune

• 7 April
• Carl Dahl, painter (born 1812)
• Gustav Skram, railroad director (born 1802)
• 16 May – Anne Marie Mangor, cookbook writer (born 1781)
• 21 May – Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, archaeologist and arts administrator (born 1788)

JulySeptember

• 14 July Ludvig Christian Brinck-Seidelin, civil servant, landowner and politician (born 1787)
• 16 September – Christian de Meza, commander of the Danish Army (born 1792)

OctoberDecember

• 14 December – Johan Georg Forchhammer, mineralogist and geologist (born 1794)
• 30 December Carl Edvard Marius Levy, physician (born 1810)

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