1862 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1862 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 13 June Rosenborg Castle Garden plays host to a party for Nordic students.
• 19 July A banquet attended by Frederick VII and Carl XV of Sweden-Norway takes place in the Grand Hall of Børsen in Copenhagen.

• 27 December The Swedish brig Daphne is wrecked off Skagen North Beach. A rescue boat from Skagen with 11 men capsizes and only two of the men survives, leaving eight women in Skagen as widows and 25 children fatherless.

Undated

• 2 September  - The rail line between Aarhus and Randers opens.

Culture

• 25 July Herman Wilhelm Bissen' Isted Lion is unveiled in Flensburg Cemetery on the 12th anniversary of the Battle of Isted.

Births

• 26 April Niels Thorkild Rovsingm surgeon (died 1927)
• 28 July  - Fritz Syberg, painter and illustrator (died 1939)
• 5 August  - Knud Arne Petersen, architect and artistic director (died 1943)
• 15 October Christian Mølsted, painter (died 1930)

Deaths

• 24 February  - Bernhard Severin Ingemann, writer (born 1789)
• 7 September Joseph Owen, businessman (born 1789)
• Eleonora Zrza, opera soprano (born 1797)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frederick VII king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 21 June 2019 . en.