1851 in Denmark

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.

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.

January–March

 * 3 January – Viggo Johansen, painter (died 1935)
 * 5 January – Johanne Bindesbøll, textile artist (died 1934)
 * 26 February – Peter Kristian Prytz, physicist (died 1929)
 * 10 March – Heinrich Wenck, architect (died 1936)

April–June

 * 24 April – Harald Giersing, painter (died 1927)

July–September

 * 16 August – Harald Jerichau, painter (died 1878)

October–December

 * 21 November – Carl Locher, painter (died 1915)

July–September

 * 23 July – Peder Severin Krøyer, painter (died 1909)

October–December

 * 12 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).