1838 in Denmark

Events from the year 1838 in Denmark.

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

• 26 March – Denmark and Venezuela agree to sign a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation.
• 17 September – After almost four decades in Rome, Bertel Thorvaldsen, accompanied by his art collections and most of his own works, returns to Copenhagen.

• Niverød Brickworks us established on the coast north of Copenhagen.l

• 3 January – Rasmus Krag, ,ilitary officer and engineer (born 1873 in Norway)
• 11 January – Ludvig Abelin Schou, painter (died 1907 in France)
• 1 February – Christian Blache, painter (died 1920)
• 6 February – Johan Hansen, businessman (died 1913)
• 22 February – Johan Peter Andreas Anker, military officer (died 1876)
• 28 February – Magda von Dolcke, actress (died 1926)

• 2 June – Charles Abrahams, architect (died 1893)
• 19 June – Julius Lange, art historian (died 1896)

• 1 July – Johanne Meyer, editor and activist (died 1915)
• 10 July – Philip Schou, businessman (died 1922)
• 16 July – Ejler Andreas Jorgensen, painter (died 1876)
• 31 July – Vilhelm Rosenstand, artist (died 1915)
• 12 September – Jacob Scavenius. landowner and politician (died 1915)

• 30 October – Christopher Peter Jürgensen, mechanician and instrument maker (died 1911)
• 23 November – Otto Mønsted, businessman (died 1916)
• 24 December – Thorvald N. Thiele, astronomer (died 1910)

• 3 January – Rasmus Krag, military officer (born 1763 in Norway)
• 13 March – Poul Martin Møller, academic, writer, and poet (born 1794)

• 20 April – Marie Kofoed, businessperson and philanthropist (born 1760)

• 6 July – Frederik Christian Raben, count, traveller and amateur naturalist (born 1769)

• 21 October – Ove Ramel Sehested, statesman (born 1757 in Norway)

• October – Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection Vol I