Events from the year 1858 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VII Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall
Events 10 November – The Danish Order of Freemasons is founded. 10 September – The statue of Frederick VI is unveiled at Frederiksberg Runddel. 1 November The new and taller Skagen Lighthouse is inaugurated as a replacement of the old Skagen Lighthouse from 1747. 18 November – The Institut Sankt Joseph is founded.
Undated Bernhard Hertz establishes his own workshop. The Institute for the Blind (founded in 1811) is taken over by the state and continued as the Rotal Institute for the Blind.
Culture Performing arts 19 December August Bournonville's ballet Flower Festival in Genzano receives its world premiere at the Royal Danish Theatre.
Births
JanuaryMarch 12 January – Viggo Lindstrøm, actor and theatre director (died 1926) 6 March – Gustav Wied, writer (died 1914) 22 March Henrik Cavling, journalist (died 1933) 25 March – Charlotte Eilersgaard, author and editor (died 1922) 29 March Carl Nicolai Starcke, sociologist, educator, politician and philosopher (died 1926)
AprilJune 3 May Alfred Schmidt, painter (died 1938) 24 June Jacob Stilling-Andersen, businessman (died 1933)
JulySeptember 17 July – Kristine Marie Jensen, cookbook writer (died 1923) 31 August Povl Bentzon, engineer and land surveyor (died 1943) 6 September Henrik Grønvold, painter (died 1940) 15 September Ingeborg Maria Sick, writher and philanthropist (died 1951)
OctoberDecember 1 October Alexander Foss, businessman (died 1025) 2 November Niels Skovgaard, artist (died 1938) 27 October – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (died 1939)
Deaths 2 February Peter Kierkegaard, clergyman and politician (born 1805) 19 March – Carl Emil Moltke, diplomat and landowner (born 1773) 10 November – Johannes Theodorus Suhr, businessman (born 1792) 8 December Haldur Grüner, economist, educator (born 1818 in Norway)
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