1859 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick VII
• Prime minister - Carl Christian Hall, Carl Edvard Rotwitt

  Events

• 15 April - An act provides for the Royal Danish Navy as well as the Botanical Gardens to leave Gammelholm which is instead to undergo urban redevelopment. The Navy's activities are moved to Nyholm while the Botanical Gardens relocate to their current site.
• 28 May - The poet Bernhard Severin Ingemann, a central figure of the Danish Golden Age, turns 70 and receives a golden horn from the women of Denmark at his home at Sorø Academy.
• 20 September - Copenhagen Zoo is inaugurated.
• 2 October - Illustreret Tidende, Denmark's first illustrated weekly, is published for the first time.
• 17 December - Frederiksborg Castle is devastated by fire but Frederiksborg Chapel is saved.

  Undated

• House numbers are introduced in Copenhagen
• Albani Brewery is founded on the island of Funen.

  Births

• 21 April - Christian Sonne, politician
• 13 May - August Enna, composer
• 16 June - Max Henius, biochemist, co-founder of the American Academy of Brewing
• 25 June - Gerhard Heilmann, paleontologist, scientific illustrator
• 18 August - Anna Ancher, painter
• 13 September - Anton Rosen, architect
• 22 September - Rudolph Sophus Bergh, composer
• 24 September - Christian Schmiegelow, businessman
• 22 October
• * Thomas Vilhelm Garde, naval officer, Greenland explorer
• * Eline Hansen, feminist
• 29 November - Adolf Heinrich-Hansen, painter
• 10 December - Peder Mørk Mønsted, painter

  Deaths

• 13 March - Vilhelm Pedersen, artist, illustrator
• 24 September - Emanuel Larsen, marine painter