Events from the year 1850 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VII Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Events
30 March – All Danish Gold Coast Settlements are sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coast 16 July: The Danish army moves into Slesvig.
Undated 30 March – Denmark sells the Danish Gold Coast to the United Kingdom
Culture 5 March – Hans Christian Andersen's poem Danmark, mit fædreland is published in the newspaper Fædrelandet. 8 May – Hans Christian Andersen's Danmark, mit fædreland is first time performed publicly as a song by a men's choir to a melody by Henrik Rung at a concert arranged by the Scandinavian Society in the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen to raise money for a monument commemorating the Danish victory in the Battle of Fredericia.
Births
January–March 14 January – Elisabeth Wandel, painter (died 1926) 25 February – Anders Thiset, archivist (died 1917) 16 March – Agnes Lunn, painter and sculptor (died 1941)
April–June 10 June – Nielsine Nielsen, businesswoman (died 1916) 22 June – Frants Henningsen, painter (died 1908) 27 June – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, mathematician (died 1017)
July–September 10 July – Valdemar Gætje, master baker and the first director of the Union of Danish Employers and Master Craftsmen (died 1905)
October–December 2 November – Antonio Jacobsen, painter (died 1921) 29 December – Valdemar Irminger, painter (died 1938)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 8 January Frederik Christian Kielsen, educator and publisher (born 1774) 20 January – Adam Oehlenschläger, poet (born 1779) 9 May – Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (born 1788)
AprilJune 12 May – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (born 1775) 2 August – Carl Neergaard, landowner and politician (born 1800) 12 November – Christian Frederik Zeuthen, landowner (born 1794)
JulySeptember 25 July – Adolph Stramboe, ballet dancer (born 1801)
OctoberDecember 38 December Heinrich Christian Schumacher, astronomer (died 1780)
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