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See also:	Other events of 1861 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year1861 inDenmark.

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

• July – The archaeological excavations at theJelling Stones are resumed under supervision ofJens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae and later that month visited by KingFrederik VII personally.
• 25 August –St. John's Church in theNørrebro district ofCopenhagen is consecrated at a ceremony attended by King Frederik VII. It is first church to be built outside the city'sold fortification ring when it was decommissioned.^[2]
• 13 September – TheChurch Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark is founded.

• 2 March –New Fairy Tales and Stories byHans Christian Andersen

• 10 February –Walter Christmas, author (died1924)
• 14 February –Peter Ilsted, artist and printmaker (died1933)

• 1 April –Ivar Knudsen, engineer (died1920)
• 27 April –Johan Skjoldborg, author (died1936)
• 29 April –Holger Hvidtfeldt Jerichau, painter (died1900)

• 10 September –Niels Hansen Jacobsen, sculptor (died1941)
• 25 September –Rasmus Andersen, sculptor (died1930)

• 2 April
  • Peter Georg Bang, politician and jurist, prime minister of Denmark (born1797)
  • *Christian Steen, bookseller and publisher (born1786)
• 1 May –Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm, artist and engraver (born1803)

• 7 August –Ludvig Brandstrup, sculptor (died1935)
• 28 August –Jonas Collin, philanthropist (born1776)
• 18 September –Julius Friedlænder, painter (born1810)

• 12 November –Christen Niemann Rosenkilde, actor (born1786)
• 26 December –Johannes Steenfeldt, scientific illustrator (died1799)
• 22 May –Johannes Georg Forchhammer, physicist (died1938)

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