1861 in Denmark

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Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	Other events of 1861 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1861 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII
• Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall

Events

A sitting King Frederik VII visiting the archeological excavations at Jelling in July 1. Drawing by Jacob Kornerup

King Frederik VII's arrival for the consecration ceremony of St. John's Church

• 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.
• August 25 – 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.
• September 13 – The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark is founded.

Publications

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

Births

• February 14 – Peter Ilsted, artist and printmaker (died 1933)
• April 27 – Johan Skjoldborg, author (died 1936)
• May 22 – Johannes Georg Forchhammer, physicist (died 1938)
• September 10 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor (died 1941)
• September 25 – Rasmus Andersen, sculptor (died 1930)

Deaths

• April 2 – Peter Georg Bang, politician and jurist, prime minister of Denmark (born 1797)
• May 1 – Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, artist and engraver (born 1803)