1861 in Denmark

Events from the year 1861 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Frederick VII^[1]
• Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall

• 1 January – The newspaper Grønlandsposten is published for the first time.
• 19 January – The Danish Shooting Association is established.

• 14 June – The 1861 Danish Folketing election is held. Carl Christian Hall remains Prime Minister following the elections.

• 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.

• 25 August – 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.^[2]

• 13 September – The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark is founded.

• 21 December – Ane Cathrine Andersdatter is executed for the murder of three of her children as the first perosn in Denmark since the adoption of the Constitution of Denmark.

• The Maritime and Commercial Court is established.
• The new Copenhagen University Library is completed.

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

• 10 February – Walter Christmas, author (died 1924)
• 14 February – Peter Ilsted, artist and printmaker (died 1933)
• 2 March – Anton Hegner, musician and composer (died 1915)

• 1 April – Ivar Knudsen, engineer (died 1920)
• 2 April – Christian Steen, publisher (born 1766)
• 27 April – Johan Skjoldborg, author (died 1936)
• 29 April – Holger Hvidtfeldt Jerichau, painter (died 1900)
• 17 May – Ulrik Plesner, architect (died 1933)
• 26 May – Birgitte Berg Nielsen, educator and activist (died 1951)

• 10 September – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor (died 1941)
• 25 September – Rasmus Andersen, sculptor (died 1930)

• 6 October – Ludvig Sylow (DBU)m football executive (died 1933)
• 9 October – Bodil Hauschildt, photographer (died 1951)

• 31 January – Ernst Meyer, politician (born 1797)

• 2 April
  • Peter Georg Bang, politician and jurist, prime minister of Denmark (born 1797)
  • * Christian Steen, bookseller and publisher (born 1786)
• 1 May – Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, artist and engraver (born 1803)
• 22 May – Johannes Georg Forchhammer, physicist (died 1938)

• 7 August – Ludvig Brandstrup, sculptor (died 1935)
• 28 August – Jonas Collin, philanthropist (born 1776)
• 3 September – Henrik Gamst, businessman, politician and landowner (born 1788)
• 18 September – Julius Friedlænder, painter (born 1810)

• 12 October – Kirstine Meyer, physicist (died 1941)
• 12 November – Christen Niemann Rosenkilde, actor (born 1786)
• 30 November – Julius Høegh-Guldberg, military officer (born 1779)
• 6 December – George Ryan, businessman
• 21 December – Ane Cathrine Andersdatter, murderer, last oerson to be executed in Denmark in times of peace (born 1829)
• 26 December – Johannes Steenfeldt, scientific illustrator (died 1799)