1856 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1856 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1856 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII
• Prime minister – Peter Georg Bang (18 October), Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ

Events

• 16 April – Jacob Heinrich Moresco opens a shop with women's clothing and fashion accessories at Amagertorv 13 in Copenhagen.
• 27 April – The Roskuilde–Korsør extension of the Copenhagen–Roskilde Railway is inaugurated.
• 13 July – C. K. Hansen is founded.
• 24 July – HDMS Heimdal is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
• 17 October – The Bang cabinet steos down.

Undated

• Seamen's Association of 1856 is founded.
• The Ceres Brewery is founded by Malthe Conrad Lottrup in Aarhus.

Births

Julie Laurberg.

Jens Christian Christensen.

January–June

• 18 March – Arnold Krog, designer (died 1931)
• 5 August – Axel Berg, architect (died 1929)
• 13 April – Urania Marquard Olsen, actress and theatre director (died 1932)

July–December

• 6 September – Hack Kampmann, architect (died 1920)
• 7 September – Julie Laurberg, photographer (died 1925)
• 28 October – Mary Steen, photographer (died 1939)
• 18 November – Joakim Skovgaard, artist (died 1933)
• 21 November – Jens Christian Christensen, politician (died 1839)

Deaths

Johan Laurentz Jensen.

Gottlieb Bindesbøll.

Thomasine Gyllembourg-

January–March

• 8 January – Frederik Marcus Knuth, landowner, civil servant and politician (born 1813)
• 26 March – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter (born 1800)

April–June

• 13 May – Mads Johansen Lange, businessman (born 1807)

July–September

• 2 July – Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, author (born 1773)
• 14 July – Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect (born 1800)
• 20 July – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano (born 1803)
• 21 July – Emil Aarestrup, poet (born 1800)
• 26 July – Otto Didrik Schack, 7th Count of Schackenborg, count (born 1810)
• 15 September – Severin Løvenskiold, baron (born 1777)

October–December

• 29 October – Frederik Liebmann, botanist (born 1813)
• 25 November – Simon Aron Eiberchutz, businessman and philanthropist (born 1786)