Events from the year 1862 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VII Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall
Events
June 13 June Rosenborg Castle Garden plays host to a party for Nordic students.
July 19 July A banquet attended by Frederick VII and Carl XV of Sweden-Norway takes place in the Grand Hall of Børsen in Copenhagen. 25 July The Isted Lion is inaugurated in Glensburg.
September 2 September The first Aarhus and Randers railway stations oen when the new Aarhus–Randers railway line is inaugurated.
December 27 December The Swedish brig Daphne is wrecked off Skagen North Beach. A rescue boat from Skagen with 11 men capsizes and only two of the men survives, leaving eight women in Skagen as widows and 25 children fatherless.
Undated The new University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum is inaugurated.
Culture Art 25 July Herman Wilhelm Bissen' Isted Lion is unveiled in Flensburg Cemetery on the 12th anniversary of the Battle of Isted. Undated Wilhelm Marstrand paints the murals in Christian IV's Chapel at Roskilde Cathedral.
Births January–]March 13 February Mikkel Hindhede, physician and nutritionist (died 1945) 17 February Henri Konow, naval officer and governor of the Danish West Indies /died 1939) 22 March – Malvina Mehrn, animal rights activist (died 1960).
AprilJune 26 April Niels Thorkild Rovsing, surgeon (died 1927) 10 June – Agnes Slott-Møller, painter (died 1937)
JulySeptember 28 July – Fritz Syberg, painter and illustrator (died 1939) 30 July Adda Ravnkilde, writer (died 1882) 5 August – Knud Arne Petersen, architect and artistic director (died 1943)
OctoberDecember 7 October Johanne Andersen , women's rights activist (died 1025) 15 October Christian Mølsted, painter (died 1930)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 4 January Joachim Wedell-Neergaard, diplomat (born 1802) 24 February – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, writer (born 1789) 3 March – Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach, theologian (born 1792) 5 June Catharine Wernicke, pianist (died 1789)
AprilJune 18 April Frederik Sødring, painter (born 1800)
JulySeptember 7 September Joseph Owen, businessman (born 1789 in Great Britain)
OctoberDecember 1 November – Eleonora Zrza, opera soprano (born 1797) 11 November Johan Carl Peter Prytz naval officer (born 1789) 23 December Frederikke Dannemand, royal mistress (born 1792)
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