1850 in Denmark
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See also: | Other events of 1850 List of years in Denmark |
Events from the year 1850 in Denmark.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – Frederick VII[1]
- Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Events
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- 30 March – All Danish Gold Coast Settlements are sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coast
- 16 July: The Danish army moves into Slesvig.
Undated
[edit]- March 30 – Denmark sells the Danish Gold Coast to the United Kingdom
Culture
[edit]- 5 March – Hans Christian Andersen's poem Danmark, mit fædreland is published in the newspaper Fædrelandet.[2]
- 8 May – Hans Christian Andersen's Danmark, mit fædreland is first time performed publicly as a song by a men's choir to a melody by Henrik Rung at a concert arranged by the Scandinavian Society in the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen to raise money for a monument commemorating the Danish victory in the Battle of Fredericia.[2]
Births
[edit]- 14 January – Elisabeth Wandel, painter (died 1926)
- 22 June – Frants Henningsen, painter (died 1908)
- 27 June – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, mathematician (died 1916)
- 10 July – Valdemar Gætje, master baker and the first director of the Union of Danish Employers and Master Craftsmen (died 1905)
- 2 November – Antonio Jacobsen, painter (died 1921)
- 29 December – Valdemar Irminger, painter (died 1938)
Deaths
[edit]- 20 January – Adam Oehlenschläger, poet (born 1779)
- 9 May – Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (born 1788.
- 12 May – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (born 1775)
- 12 November – Christian Frederik Zeuthen, landowner (born 1794)[3]
- 25 July – Adolph Stramboe, ballet dancer (born 1801)
Full date missing
[edit]- Thomas Jacobsen, violin maker (born 1810)
References
[edit]- ^ "Frederick VII | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
- ^ a b "H.C. Andersen og musikken". Kulturstyrelsen (in Danish). Retrieved 8 March 2023.
- ^ "C. Zeuthen". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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