Events from the year 1851 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VII Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Events
February Danish troops return to Copenhagen from the First Schleswig War. 1 May Natalie Zahle launches a programme for the training of female private teachers, an initiative which will eventually develop into N. Zahle's School. 16 October The first section of the Lübeck–Lüneburg railway is opened.
Undated Hagen & Sievertsen is founded in Odense.
Culture Art 31 March The Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition opens. Wilhelm Marstrand's painting of Church-Goers Arriving by Boat at the Parish Church of Leksand on Siljan Lake is part of the exhibition.
Births
JanuaryMarch 3 January – Viggo Johansen, painter (died 1935) 5 January Johanne Bindesbøll, textile artist (died 1934) 9 February Viggo Dorph-Petersen, architect (died 1837 in France) 26 February Peter Kristian Prytz, physicist (died 1929) 10 March Heinrich Wenck, architect (died 1936)
AprilJune JulySeptember 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909) 16 August Harald Jerichau, painter (died 1878)
OctoberDecember 21 November Carl Locher, painter (died 1915) 22 November Karl Jensen, painter (died 1933)
Deaths
9 March – Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism (born 1777) 11 July – Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter (born 1786) 25 August – Johan Christian Drewsen, businessman and agronomist (born 1777) 20 December – Gebhard Moltke, nobleman, landowner and civil servant (born 1764). 27 December Sophie Thalbitzer, memorist (born 1774)
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