1858 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1858 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1858 in Denmark .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VII ^[1]
• Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall

Events

• 10 November – The Danish Order of Freemasons is founded.
• 10 September – The statue of Frederick VI is unveiled at Frederiksberg Runddel.
• 1 November – The new and taller Skagen Lighthouse is inaugurated as a replacement of the old Skagen Lighthouse from 1747.
• 18 November – The Institut Sankt Joseph is founded.

Undated

• Bernhard Hertz establishes his own workshop.
• The Institute for the Blind (founded in 1811) is taken over by the state and continued as the Rotal Institute for the Blind.

Births

January–March

• 12 January – Viggo Lindstrøm, actor and theatre director (died 1926)
• 6 March – Gustav Wied, writer (died 1914)
• 25 March – Charlotte Eilersgaard, author and editor (died 1922) ^[2]

April–June

• 3 May – Alfred Schmidt, painter (died 1938)
• 24 June – Jacob Stilling-Andersen, businessman (died 1933)

July–September

• 17 July – Kristine Marie Jensen, cookbook writer (died 1923)
• 31 August – Povl Bentzon, engineer and land surveyor (died 1943)
• 6 September – Henrik Grønvold, painter (died 1940)

October–December

• 2 November – Niels Skovgaard, artist (died 1938)
• 27 October – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (died 1939)

Deaths

• 19 March – Carl Emil Moltke, diplomat and landowner (born 1773)
• 10 November – Johannes Theodorus Suhr, businessman (born 1792)

References

1. "Frederick VII: king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
2. "Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Charlotte Eilersgaard". www.kvinfo.dk. 15 May 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2019.