1851 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick VII
• Prime minister - Adam Wilhelm Moltke

  Events

Undated

Births

• 3 January – Viggo Johansen, painter

  Deaths

• 9 March – Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism
• 11 July – Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter
• 20 December – Gebhard Moltke, nobleman, landowner and civil servant.