1861 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick VII
• Prime minister - Carl Christian Hall

  Events

• July - The archaeological excavations at the Jelling Stones are resumed under supervision of Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae and later that month visited by King Frederik VII personally.
• August 25 - St. John's Church in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen is consecrated at a ceremony attended by King Frederik VII. It is first church to be built outside the city's old fortification ring when it was decommissioned.
• September 13 - The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark is founded.

  Undated

Publications

• March 2 - New Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

  Births

• February 14 - Peter Ilsted, artist and printmaker
• April 27 - Johan Skjoldborg, author
• May 22 - Johannes Georg Forchhammer, physicist
• September 10 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor
• September 25 - Rasmus Andersen, sculptor

  Deaths

• April 2 - Peter Georg Bang, politician and jurist, prime minister of Denmark
• May 1 - Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, artist and engraver