{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1855}} Events from the year '''1855 in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch – Frederick VII<ref>{{cite web |title=Frederick VII {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-VII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=21 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Peter Georg Bang
==Events== * 8 January – Sparekassen for Vordingborg og Omegn is established.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.coneliand.dk/Danmarks%20aeldste%20forretninger/DAEF%20500-599/Side_566_Spar_-_Sped.html|title=Sparekassen for Vordingborg Og Omegn|language=Danish|website=coneliand.dk|accessdate=27 March 2018}}</ref> thumb|27 September: ''Fremstilling af Afstemningen i Folkethinget den 27de September 1855 over Fællesforfatningens Vedtagelse''
* 31 October – Gads Forlag is founded by Gottlieb Ernst Clausen Gad. * 18 November – Sødring & Co. is founded by Christopher Hansen Sødring and Frederik Marchus, Count Knuth til Knuthenborg. * 27 September – A vote in Folketinget concerning the so-called ''fællesforfatning''.
==Culture== ===Literature=== thumb|''Ghortens Flugt''. * 27 November – Christian Winther publishes ''Hjortens Flugt. Et Digt''.
==Births== [[File:Carl Gammeltoft.png|thumb|120px|Carl Gammelgaard.]] ===January–March=== * 17 January – Alfred Benzon, pharmacist (died 1932) * 14 February – Christian Bohrm physician (died 1911) * 20 February – Fanny Garde, ceramist and designer (died 1928) * 22 March – Karl Madsen, art historian, painter and arts administrator (died 1938)
===July–September=== * 9 July – Sara Ulrik, flower painter (died 1916) * 29 August – Erik Henningsen, painter (died 1930) * 20 September – Carl Gammeltoft, businessman (died 1034),
===October–December=== * 16 October – Carl Andreas Koefoed, agronomist (died 1948) * 12 October – Charlotte Norrie, nurse and women's rights activist (died 1940)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Charlotte Norrie |url=https://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1129/ |website=www.kvinfo.dk |access-date=3 December 2019 |date=15 May 2003}}</ref> * 20 October – Poul Simon Christiansen, painter and church decorator (died 1933)
==Deaths== * 8 March – Stephan Hegerm actor (born 1769) * 11 November – Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher (born 1813) * 25 November – Poul Christian Stemann, government official and landowner (born 1764)
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