1836 in Denmark

Events from the year 1836 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Frederick VI^[1]
• Prime minister – Otto Joachim

• 5 March – The Music Society is founded in Copenhagen, on Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse's birthday, and for almost a century it remains the most important music venue in Denmark
• 15 April – What will later become known as the publishing house Høst & Søn is founded when Andreas Frederik Høst (1811-1897) opened a combined book and art shop at Gothersgade 49 in Copenhagen.
• 25 June – Køge Savings Bank is established.^[2]

• Musikforeningen is founded.
• A. N. Hansen & Co. is founded.

• Undated – Copenhagen's Music Society is founded.
• 28 November – August Bournonville's version of'La Sylphide premiers at the Royal Danish Theatre. The title role is created by Lucile Grahn.

• 24 January – Signe Rink, writer and enothologist (died 1909)
• 1 February – Emil Hartmann, composer (died 1898)
• 2 February – Wilhelm Hellesen, industrialist and inventor (died 1892)
• 7 February – Heinrich Hirschsprung, businessman and art collector (died 1908)
• 3 March – Jean Christian Ferslew, publisher and businessman (died 1910)

• 24 April – Ditlev Torm, businessman (died 1907)
• 9 May – Sophus Schandorph, poet (died 1901)
• 12 May – Ludvig Grundtvig, photographer (died 1901)
• 3 June – Niels Hoffmeyer, army officer (died 1884)
• 4 June – Cornelia von Levetzow, writer (died 1921)

• 3 August – Emma Hørup, schoolteacher, journalist and member of the Danish Women's Society (died 1923)
• 4 August – Vilhelm Dahlerup, architect (died 1907)
• 5 August – Vilhelm Bissen, sculptor (died 1913)
• 29 August – Christian Conrad Sophus Danneskiold-Samsøe, landowner and theatre director (died 1908)
• 5 September – Johanne Fenger, composer (died 1913)
• 9 September Bernhard Olsen, museum director (died 1922)
• 22 September
  • Thomas Arboe, architect (died 1917)
  • Peter Mærsk Møller, sea captain (died 1927)
• 24 September – Christoph Cloëtta, chocolate manufacturer (died 1897)

• 12 February – Herman Gerhard Treschow, county governor (born 1780)
• 18 February – Johan Daniel Herholdt, physician (born 1764)
• 19 February – Constantin Brun, businessman and landowner (born 1857)

• 5 May – Hans Vilhelm Cederfeld de Simonsen, landowner and government official (born 1777)

• 19 July – Johan Frederik Vilhelm Schlegel, jurist, colonial administrator (born 1765)
• 29 November – Caspar Henrik Wolfsen, privateer and customs inspector (born 1781)
• 30 December – Pierre Paul Ferdinand Mourierm Danish Asiatic Company trader and landowner (born 1746)