1844 in Denmark

Events from the year 1844 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian VIII
 * Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann

Events

 * 4 July – A National Language Meeting is held at Skamlingsbanken.

Undated

 * Søren Kierkegaard publishes Philosophical Fragments.

January–March

 * 12 January – Louis Hasselriis, sculptor (died 1912)
 * 13 January – Peter Gottfred Ramm, military officer, landowner and company founder (died 1917)
 * 1 February – Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes, economist, writer, and editor (died 1892)

April–June

 * 11 April – Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, politician (died 1917)
 * 12 June
 * Klaus Berntsen, politician (died 1927)
 * Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (died 1877)

July–September

 * 20 September – Emilie West, educator (died 1907)

October–December

 * 12 Octoeber – Carl Wivel, restaurateur (died 1922)
 * 9 November – Andreas Riis Carstensen, painter (died 1906)
 * 1 December – Alexandra of Denmark, queen-empress consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1925 in the United Kingdom)
 * 4 December – Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, soldier and botanist (died 1903)
 * 6 December – Rogert Møller, architect (died 1918)

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 * 11 June – Hans Christian Lumbye's Telegraph Galop premiers in Tivoli's Concert Hall in Copenhagen.

Deaths

 * 7 March – Christian Horneman, miniature painter (born 1765)
 * 15 March – Adam August Müller, painter (born 1811)
 * 24 March – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (born 1770)
 * 6 April – Christian Jacob Theophilus de Meza, physician (born 1756)


 * 16 December – Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (born 1770)
 * 24 December – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (born 1803)