Events from the year 1850 in

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Incumbents

* Monarch – Frederick VII * Prime minister –

Adam Wilhelm Moltke Adam Wilhelm Moltke, 3rd Count of Bregentved (25 August 178515 February 1864) was a Danish nobleman, landowner, civil servant and politician, who in 1848-1852 was the first Prime Minister of Denmark under the new constitutional monarchy outline ...

Events

* 30 March – All

Danish Gold Coast The Danish Gold Coast ( da, Danske Guldkyst or ''Dansk Guinea'') comprised the colonies that Denmark–Norway controlled in Africa as a part of the Gold Coast (roughly present-day southeast Ghana), which is on the Gulf of Guinea. It was coloni ...

Settlements are sold to Britain and incorporated into the

British Gold Coast The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the ad ...

Undated

* March 30 – Denmark sells the

to the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

Births

* 22 June –

Frants Henningsen Frants Peter Diderik Henningsen (22 June 1850, Copenhagen – 20 March 1908, Copenhagen) was a Danish painter, illustrator and professor. His paintings depict unfortunate occurrences in the lives of middle-class people living in Copenhagen during ...

, painter (died 1908) * 27 June –

Jørgen Pedersen Gram Jørgen Pedersen Gram (27 June 1850 – 29 April 1916) was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. Important papers of his include ''On series expansions determin ...

, mathematician (died 1916) * 10 July Valdemar Gætje, master baker and the first director of the Union of Danish Employers and Master Craftsmen (died 1905)

Deaths

* 20 January – Adam Oehlenschläger, poet (born 1779) * 9 May –

Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark Juliane Sophie (18 February 1788, in Copenhagen – 9 May 1850, in Copenhagen) was a Princess of Denmark, the daughter of Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, who himself was a younger son of King Frederick V of Denmark in his second marri ...

, princess of Denmark (born

1788 Events January–March * January 1 – The first edition of ''The Times'', previously ''The Daily Universal Register'', is published in London. * January 2 – Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the fourth U.S ...

. * 12 May –

Nicolai Abraham Holten Nicolai Abraham Holten (27 March 1775 – 12 May 1850) was a Danish civil servant in the financial administration and director of Øresund Custom House. Early life and education Holten was born in Copenhagen, the son of customs officer and forme ...

, banker and civil servant (born

1775 Events Summary The American Revolutionary War began this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's now-legendary ride. The Second Continental Congress t ...

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* Thomas Jacobsen, violin maker (born 1810)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1850 In Denmark 1850s in Denmark

Years of the 19th century in Denmark