1861 in Denmark

Events from the year 1861 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick VII
 * Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall

Events

 * July – The archaeological excavations at the Jelling Stones are resumed under supervision of Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae and later that month visited by King Frederik VII personally.
 * 25 August – St. John's Church in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen is consecrated at a ceremony attended by King Frederik VII. It is first church to be built outside the city's old fortification ring when it was decommissioned.
 * 13 September – The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark is founded.

Publications

 * 2 March – New Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

January–March

 * 10 February – Walter Christmas, author (died 1924)
 * 14 February – Peter Ilsted, artist and printmaker (died 1933)

April–June

 * 1 April – Ivar Knudsen, engineer (died 1920)
 * 27 April – Johan Skjoldborg, author (died 1936)
 * 29 April – Holger Hvidtfeldt Jerichau, painter (died 1900)
 * 22 May – Johannes Georg Forchhammer, physicist (died 1938)

July–September

 * 10 September – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor (died 1941)
 * 25 September – Rasmus Andersen, sculptor (died 1930)

April–June

 * 2 April
 * Peter Georg Bang, politician and jurist, prime minister of Denmark (born 1797)
 * * Christian Steen, bookseller and publisher (born 1786)
 * 1 May – Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, artist and engraver (born 1803)

July–September

 * 28 August – Jonas Collin, philanthropist (born 1776)
 * 18 September – Julius Friedlænder, painter (born 1810)

October–December

 * 12 November – Christen Niemann Rosenkilde, actor (born 1786)