1847 in Denmark

Events from the year 1847 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 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 (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.

Art

 * Wilhelm Marstrand paints his Italian Osteria Scene.

January–March

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

July–September

 * 11 April – Axel Helsted, painter (died 1907)
 * 23 September – Johanne Christine Petersen, school principal (died 1922)

October–December

 * 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)

Deaths

 * 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)