1859 in Denmark

← 1858 1857 1856 1859 in Denmark → 1860 1861 1862
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1859 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1859 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII[1]
• Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall (until 2 December), Carl Edvard Rotwitt

Events

Ingemann receiving his horn on May 28

The Fire of Frederiksborg Palace on December 17

• 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.[2]
• 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.
• 20 September – Copenhagen Zoo is inaugurated.[3]
• 2 October – Illustreret Tidende, Denmark's first illustrated weekly, is published for the first time.[2]
• 17 December – Frederiksborg Castle is devastated by fire but Frederiksborg Chapel is saved.

Undated

• House numbers are introduced in Copenhagen
• Albani Brewery is founded on the island of Funen.

Births

• 21 April – Christian Sonne, politician (died 1941)
• 13 May – August Enna, composer (died 1939)
• 16 June – Max Henius, biochemist, co-founder of the American Academy of Brewing (died 1935)
• 25 June – Gerhard Heilmann, paleontologist, scientific illustrator (died 1946)
• 18 August – Anna Ancher, painter (died 1935)
• 13 September – Anton Rosen, architect (died 1928)
• 22 September – Rudolph Sophus Bergh, composer (died 1924)
• 24 September – Christian Schmiegelow, businessman (died 1949)
• 22 October
  • Thomas Vilhelm Garde, naval officer, Greenland explorer (died 1926)
  • Eline Hansen, feminist (died 1919)[4]
• 29 November – Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, painter (died 1925)
• 10 December – Peder Mørk Mønsted, painter (died 1941)

Deaths

• 13 March – Vilhelm Pedersen, artist, illustrator (born 1820)
• 24 September – Emanuel Larsen, marine painter (born 1823)

References

1. "Frederick VII | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
2. "1758" (in Danish). Selskabet for Københavns Historie. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
3. "Jubilæumsudstilling - Zoo gennem 150 år". Copenhagen Zoo. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
4. "Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Eline Hansen". www.kvinfo.dk. 15 May 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2019.