1855 in Denmark

Events from the year 1855 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick VII
 * Prime minister – Peter Georg Bang

Events

 * 8 January – Sparekassen for Vordingborg og Omegn is established.


 * 31 October – Gads Forlag is founded by Gottlieb Ernst Clausen Gad.
 * 18 November – Sødring & Co. is founded by Christopher Hansen Sødring and Frederik Marchus, Count Knuth til Knuthenborg.
 * 27 September – A vote in Folketinget concerning the so-called fællesforfatning.

January–March

 * 17 January – Alfred Benzon, pharmacist (died 1922)
 * 14 February – Christian Bohrm physician (died 1911)
 * 20 February – Fanny Garde, ceramist and designer (died 1928)
 * 22 March – Karl Madsen, art historian, painter and arts administrator (died 1938)

July–September

 * 11 August – Erik Henningsen, painter (died 1839)

October–December

 * 16 October – Carl Andreas Koefoed, agronomist (died 1948)
 * 12 October – Charlotte Norrie, nurse and women's rights activist (died 1940)
 * 20 October – Poul Simon Christiansen, painter and church decorator (died 1933)

Deaths

 * 7 March – Stephan Hegerm actor (born 1769)
 * 11 November – Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher