1856 in Denmark

Events from the year 1856 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick VII
 * Prime minister – Peter Georg Bang (18 October), Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ

Events

 * 16 April – Jacob Heinrich Moresco opens a shop with women's clothing and fashion accessories at Amagertorv 13 in Copenhagen.
 * 27 April – The Roskuilde–Korsør extension of the Copenhagen–Roskilde Railway is inaugurated.
 * 13 July – C. K. Hansen is founded.

Undated

 * Seamen's Association of 1856 is founded.
 * The Ceres Brewery is founded by Malthe Conrad Lottrup in Aarhus.

Births

 * 18 March – Arnold Krog, designer (died 1931)
 * 6 September – Hack Kampmann, architect (died 1920)
 * 7 September – Julie Laurberg, photographer (died 1925)
 * 28 October – Mary Steen, photographer (died 1939)
 * 16 November – Joakim Skovgaard, artist (died 1933)

January–March

 * 26 March – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter (born 1800)

July–Seåtember

 * 2 July – Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, author (born 1773)
 * 14 July – Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect (born 1800)
 * 20 July – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano (died 1803)
 * 21 July – Emil Aarestrup, poet (born 1800)
 * 15 September – Severin Løvenskiold, baron (born 1777)

Pctpber–December

 * 25 November – Simon Aron Eiberchutz, businessman and philanthropist (born 1786)