1847 in Denmark

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Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1847 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1847 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Christian VIII^[1]
• Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann

• 26 June – The first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark, the railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, was completed for the Zealand Railway Company (Danish: Det Sjællandske Jernbaneselskab) by British engineering company William Radford.
• 12–17 July – The 5th Scandinavian Scientist Conference is held in Copenhagen.
• 10 November – The first beer is brewed at J.C. Jacobsen's new Carlsberg brewery on Valby Hill in Copenhagen.^[2]

• Wilhelm Marstrand paints his Italian Osteria Scene.

• 24 February – Charles Ambt, engineer (died 1919)
• 8 March – Anton Marius Andersen, American Lutheran minister (died 1941)

• 11 April – Axel Helsted, painter (died 1907)
• 23 September – Johanne Christine Petersen, school principal (died 1922)^[3]

• 13 October – Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (died 1928)
• 21 October – Edvard Brandes, politician, author and editor (died 1931)
• 3 December – Arthur Ivan Allin, musician (died 1926)
• 16 December – Bertha Wegmann, painter (died 1926)
• 25 December – Albert Jensen, architect (died 1913)

• 12 November – William Christopher Zeise, chemist (born 1789)
• 17 November – Henriette Jørgensen, actress (born 1791)
• 17 December — Conrad Christian Bøhndel, painter and lithographer (born 1779)