Events from the year 1844 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VIII Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann
Events
4 July – A National Language Meeting is held at Skamlingsbanken.
Undated Søren Kierkegaard publishes Philosophical Fragments.
Culture ;usic 11 June – Hans Christian Lumbye's Telegraph Galop premiers in Tivoli's Concert Hall in Copenhagen.
Births
January–March 12 January – Louis Hasselriis, sculptor (died 1912) 13 January – Peter Gottfred Ramm, military officer, landowner and company founder (died 1917) 1 February – Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes, economist, writer, and editor (died 1892)
April–June 11 April – Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, politician (died 1917) 12 June Klaus Berntsen, politician (died 1927) Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (died 1877)
July–September 13 July – Laurence Gronlund, lawyer, writer and political activist (died 1899 in the United States) 21 August Carl Feilberg, journalist, editor and political commentator (died 1887 in Australia) 20 September – Emilie West, educator (died 1907)
October–December 12 October – Carl Wivel, restaurateur (died 1922) 9 November – Andreas Riis Carstensen, painter (died 1906) 1 December – Alexandra of Denmark, queen-empress consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1925 in the United Kingdom) 4 December – Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, soldier, explorer and botanist (died 1903) 6 December – Rogert Møller, architect (died 1918)
Deaths
7 March – Christian Horneman, miniature painter (born 1765) 15 March – Adam August Müller, painter (born 1811) 24 March – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (born 1770) 6 April – Christian Jacob Theophilus de Meza, physician (born 1756)
16 December – Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (born 1770) 24 December – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (born 1803)
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