{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1838}} Events from the year '''1838 in Denmark'''.

==Incumbents== * Monarch – Frederick VI<ref>{{cite web |title=Frederick VI {{!}} king of Denmark and Norway |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-VI |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=23 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Otto Joachim

==Events== [[Image:Thorvaldsens modtagelse på Toldboden, 17 September1838.jpg|thumb|200px|Bertel Thorvaldsen's reception in Copenhagen on 17 September. Painting by Fritz Westphal.]] * 26 March – Denmark and Venezuela agree to sign a Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation. * 17 September – After almost four decades in Rome, Bertel Thorvaldsen, accompanied by his art collections and most of his own works, returns to Copenhagen.

===Undated=== * Niverød Brickworks us established on the coast north of Copenhagen.l

==Births== [[File:Johan Hansen 1838-1913.jpg|thumb|120px| Johan Hansen.]] [[File:Philip Schou by Bertha Wegmann.jpg|thumb|120px|Philip Schou.]] ===January–March=== * 3 January – Rasmus Krag, ,ilitary officer and engineer (born 1873 in Norway) * 11 January – Ludvig Abelin Schou, painter (died 1907 in France) * 1 February – Christian Blache, painter (died 1920) * 6 February – Johan Hansen, businessman (died 1913) * 22 February – Johan Peter Andreas Anker, military officer (died 1876) * 28 February – Magda von Dolcke, actress (died 1926)

===April–June=== * 2 June – Charles Abrahams, architect (died 1893) * 19 June – Julius Lange, art historian (died 1896)

===July–September=== * 1 July – Johanne Meyer, editor and activist (died 1915) * 10 July – Philip Schou, businessman (died 1922) * 16 July – Ejler Andreas Jorgensen, painter (died 1876) * 31 July – Vilhelm Rosenstand, artist (died 1915) * 12 September – Jacob Scavenius. landowner and politician (died 1915)

===October–December=== * 30 October – Christopher Peter Jürgensen, mechanician and instrument maker (died 1911) * 23 November – Otto Mønsted, businessman (died 1916) * 24 December – Thorvald N. Thiele, astronomer (died 1910)

==Deaths== [[File:Johan Anton Bech Etatsrådinde Marie Kofoed cropped.jpg|thumb|120px|Marie Kofoed.]] ===January–March=== * 3 January – Rasmus Krag, military officer (born 1763 in Norway) * 13 March – Poul Martin Møller, academic, writer, and poet (born 1794)

===April–June=== * 20 April – Marie Kofoed, businessperson and philanthropist (born 1760)

===July–September=== * 6 July – Frederik Christian Raben, count, traveller and amateur naturalist (born 1769)

===October–December=== * 21 October – Ove Ramel Sehested, statesman (born 1757 in Norway)

==Publications== * October – Hans Christian Andersen: ''Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection'' Vol I

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