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

• 13 June – Rosenborg Castle Garden plays host to a party for Nordic students.
• 19 July – A banquet attended by Frederick VII and Carl XV of Sweden-Norway takes place in the Grand Hall of Børsen in Copenhagen.

• 27 December – The Swedish brig Daphne is wrecked off Skagen North Beach. A rescue boat from Skagen with 11 men capsizes and only two of the men survives, leaving eight women in Skagen as widows and 25 children fatherless.

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• 2 September – The rail line between Aarhus and Randers opens.

• 25 July – Herman Wilhelm Bissen' Isted Lion is unveiled in Flensburg Cemetery on the 12th anniversary of the Battle of Isted.

• 26 April – Niels Thorkild Rovsingm surgeon (died 1927)
• 28 July – Fritz Syberg, painter and illustrator (died 1939)
• 5 August – Knud Arne Petersen, architect and artistic director (died 1943)
• 15 October – Christian Mølsted, painter (died 1930)

• 24 February – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, writer (born 1789)
• 7 September – Joseph Owen , businessman (born 1789)
• Eleonora Zrza, opera soprano (born 1797)