1851 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1851 in Denmark .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII ^[1]
• Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke

Events

The Danish troops return to Copenhagen.

• February – Danish troops return to Copenhagen from the First Schleswig War.
• 1 May – Natalie Zahle launches a programme for the training of female private teachers, an initiative which will eventually develop into N. Zahle's School.
• 16 October – The first section of the Lübeck–Lüneburg railway is opened.

Undated

• Hagen & Sievertsen is founded in Odense.

Culture

Art

• 31 March – The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition opens.
  • Wilhelm Marstrand's painting of Church-Goers Arriving by Boat at the Parish Church of Leksand on Siljan Lake is part of the exhibition. ^[2]

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  Wilhelm Marstrand: Church-Goers Arriving by Boat at the Parish Church of Leksand on Siljan Lake , Danish National Gallery.

Births

January–March

• 3 January – Viggo Johansen, painter (died 1935)
• 5 January – Johanne Bindesbøll, textile artist (died 1934)
• 26 February – Peter Kristian Prytz, physicist (died 1929)
• 10 March – Heinrich Wenck, architect (died 1936)

July–September

• 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909)
• 16 August – Harald Jerichau, painter (died 1878)

October–December

• 21 November – Carl Locher, painter (died 1915)
• 22 November – Karl Jensen, painter (died 1933)

Deaths

• 9 March – Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism (born 1777)
• 11 July – Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter (born 1786)
• 25 August – Johan Christian Drewsen, businessman and agronomist (born 1777)
• 20 December – Gebhard Moltke, nobleman, landowner and civil servant (born 1764). ^[3]

References

1. "Frederick VII | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
2. Madsen, Karl (1905). Wilhelm Marstrand 1807-1873. Kunstforeningen. pp. 168–. ISBN   1172123985.
3. Bratberg, Terje. "Gebhard Moltke". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 17 April 2013.