1848 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Christian VIII, then Frederick VII
• Prime minister - Poul Christian Stemann, Adam Wilhelm Moltke

  Events

• March 21 - A large demonstration goes to Christiansborg Palace. Absolutism is abolished.
• The outbreak of the First Schleswig War
• April 9 - The Battle of Bov, the first battle of the war, is won by Denmark.
• April 29 - The Battle at Schleswig: Prussia has now entered the war and the German side has almost three times as many soldiers as Denmark, which has to withdraw to Funen. Jutland is left open to the German troops.
• July 3 - Slavery is definitively abolished in the Danish West Indies. It is officially confirmed on 22 September.
• October 23 - The Constitutional Assembly meets at Christiansborg Palace

  Undated

Births

• September 16 – Kristiane Konstantin-Hansen, weaver, textile artist, retailer and feminist

  Deaths

• January 20 - Christian VIII, King of Denmark
• January 29 - Peter Thonning, physician and botanist
• February 7 - Christen Købke, painter
• April 26 - Johan Lundbye, painter
• August 29 - Martinus Rørbye, painter