1850 in Denmark

Events from the year 1850 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick VII
 * Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke

Events

 * 30 March – All Danish Gold Coast Settlements are sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coast
 * 16 July: The Danish army moves into Slesvig.

Undated

 * March 30 – Denmark sells the Danish Gold Coast to the United Kingdom

Culture

 * 5 March – Hans Christian Andersen's poem Danmark, mit fædreland is published in the newspaper Fædrelandet.
 * 8 May – Hans Christian Andersen's Danmark, mit fædreland is first time performed publicly as a song by a men's choir to a melody by Henrik Rung at a concert arranged by the Scandinavian Society in the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen to raise money for a monument commemorating the Danish victory in the Battle of Fredericia.

Births

 * 14 January – Elisabeth Wandel, painter (died 1926)
 * 22 June – Frants Henningsen, painter (died 1908)
 * 27 June – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, mathematician (died 1916)
 * 10 July – Valdemar Gætje, master baker and the first director of the Union of Danish Employers and Master Craftsmen (died 1905)
 * 2 November – Antonio Jacobsen, painter (died 1921)
 * 29 December – Valdemar Irminger, painter (died 1938)

Deaths

 * 20 January – Adam Oehlenschläger, poet (born 1779)
 * 9 May – Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (born 1788.
 * 12 May – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (born 1775)
 * 12 November – Christian Frederik Zeuthen, landowner (born 1794)


 * 25 July – Adolph Stramboe, ballet dancer (born 1801)

Full date missing

 * Thomas Jacobsen, violin maker (born 1810)