1843 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Christian VIII
• Prime minister - Poul Christian Stemann

  Events

• 18 May – first public meeting at Skamlingsbanken.
• 16 August – Georg Carstensen Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen are inaugurated with 3.615 visitors on the opening day. At the end of the 1843 season, more than 175,000 guests have visited the park.

  Undated

Culture

Literature

• 20 February – Søren Kierkegaard publishes Either/Or

  Births

• 24 January – Evald Tang Kristensen, author and folklore collector
• 25 February – Christian Ditlev Ammentorp Hansen, pharmacist and industrialist
• 31 March – Christian Zacho, painter
• 8 April - Asger Hamerik, composer
• 3 June - King Frederick VIII
• 7 November – Erhard Frederiksen, agriculturalist

  Deaths

• 18 January – Princess Louise Auguste, princess of Denmark, Duchesof Augustenborg