Events from the year 1856 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VII Prime minister – Peter Georg Bang (18 October), Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ
Events 16 April Jacob Heinrich Moresco opens a shop with women's clothing and fashion accessories at Amagertorv 13 in Copenhagen. 27 April The Roskuilde–Korsør extension of the Copenhagen–Roskilde Railway is inaugurated. 13 July C. K. Hansen is founded. 24 July HDMS Heimdal is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen. 17 October The Bang cabinet steos down.
Undated Seamen's Association of 1856 is founded. The Ceres Brewery is founded by Malthe Conrad Lottrup in Aarhus.
Births
JanuaryJune 18 March – Arnold Krog, designer (died 1931) 5 August Axel Berg, architect (died 1929) 13 April – Urania Marquard Olsen, actress and theatre director (died 1932)
JulyDecember 6 September – Hack Kampmann, architect (died 1920) 7 September Julie Laurberg, photographer (died 1925) 28 October – Mary Steen, photographer (died 1939) 18 November Joakim Skovgaard, artist (died 1933) 21 November Jens Christian Christensen, politician (died 1839)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 8 January Frederik Marcus Knuth, landowner, civil servant and politician (born 1813) 26 March – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter (born 1800)
AprilJune 13 May Mads Johansen Lange, businessman (born 1807)
JulySeptember 2 July – Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, author (born 1773) 14 July – Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect (born 1800) 20 July – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano (born 1803) 21 July – Emil Aarestrup, poet (born 1800) 26 July Otto Didrik Schack, 7th Count of Schackenborg, count (born 1810) 15 September Severin Løvenskiold, baron (born 1777)
OctoberDecember 29 October Frederik Liebmann, botanist (born 1813) 25 November Simon Aron Eiberchutz, businessman and philanthropist (born 1786)
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