• Monarch – Frederick VII^[1]
• Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall

• 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.^[2]
• 13 September – The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark is founded.

Undated edit

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

January–March edit

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

April–June edit

• 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 edit

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

April–June edit

• 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 edit

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

October–December edit

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