Rahul Sharma (Editor)

1861 in Denmark

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
1861 in Denmark

Decades:
  
1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s

Events from the year 1861 in Denmark.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • July – The archaeological excavations at the Jelling Stones are resumed under supervision of Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae and later that month visited by King Frederik VII personally.
  • August 25 – St. John's Church in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen is consecrated at a ceremony attended by King Frederik VII. It is first church to be built outside the city's old fortification ring when it was decommissioned.
  • September 13 – The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark is founded.

    • Publications

  • March 2 – New Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

    • Births

  • February 14 – Peter Ilsted, artist and printmaker (died 1933)
  • April 27 – Johan Skjoldborg, author (died 1936)
  • May 22 – Johannes Georg Forchhammer, physicist (died 1938)
  • September 10 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor (died 1941)
  • September 25 – Rasmus Andersen, sculptor (died 1930)

    • Deaths

  • April 2 – Peter Georg Bang, politician and jurist, prime minister of Denmark (born 1797)
  • May 1 – Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, artist and engraver (born 1803)

    • References

    1861 in Denmark Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics