1850 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1850 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch - Frederick VII^[1]
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.^[2]
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.^[2]

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)^[3]
25 July Adolph Stramboe, ballet dancer (born 1801)

Full date missing

Thomas Jacobsen, violin maker (born 1810)

Notes and References

Web site: Frederick VII king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 21 June 2019 . en.
Web site: H.C. Andersen og musikken . Danish. Kulturstyrelsen. 8 March 2023.
Web site: C. Zeuthen. Danish. Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. 16 June 2022.