{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1863}} Events from the year '''1863 in Denmark'''.
==Incumbents== * Monarch – Frederick VII (until 15 November),<ref name=Frederick>{{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> Christian IX<ref name=Christian>{{cite web |title=Christian IX {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-IX |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=21 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Carl Christian Hall (until 31 December), Ditlev Gothard Monrad
==Events== thumb|200px|Frederick VII receives a Greek deputation at Christiansborg. [[File:Copenhagen tram 1863.jpg|thumb|200px|The first tram in Copenhagen passing the Liberty Column ]] [[File:Knud Gamborg - C. C. Hall.jpg|thumb|200px|C. C. Hall proclaiming Frederick VII's death and Christian IX's ascent to the throne from Christiansborg Palace ]] * 6 May {{ndash}} HDMS ''Rolf Krake'' is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen. * 6 June {{ndash}} Frederick VII receives a Greek deputation at Christiansborg. * 20 July {{ndash}} The LangåLangå-Viborg section of the Langå-Struer Railway is opened.. * 22 October – The first tramway in Copenhagen begins operations. The Horse-drawn tram cars run along a single track between Sankt Annæ Plads and Frederiksberg Runddel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bryggenslokalhistorie.dk/sporvogn.html|title=Sporvogne og busser|publisher=bryggenslokalhistorie.dk|access-date=2011-06-02|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130212183031/http://www.bryggenslokalhistorie.dk/sporvogn.html|archive-date=12 February 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> * 15 November – With Christian IX's accent to the Danish throne, the House of Glücksburg succeeded the House of Oldenburg.<ref name=Christian /> * Christian IX signs the so-called November Constitution establishing a shared law of succession and a common parliament for both Schleswig and Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the 1852 London Protocol. * 24 December – Saxon and Hanoverian troops marched into Holstein on behalf of the Confederation. Supported by the German soldiers and by loyal Holsteiners, Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein took control of the government of Holstein.
==Births== [[File:Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen.jpg|thumb|120px|Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen-]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 12 March {{ndash}} Carl Holsøe, painter (died 1935) * 26 March {{ndash}} Edvard Ehlers, dermatologist (died 1937)
===April{{ndash}}June=== * 22 April {{ndash}} Karl Hansen Reistrup, sculptor, illustrator and ceramist. (died 1929) [[File:Louise Janssen en Eva.png|thumb|120px|Louise Jensen.]] * 25 April – Carl Wentorf, painter (died 1914) * 5 May {{ndash}} Ole Olsen, filmmaker and Nordisk Film-founder (died 1943) * 10 June {{ndash}} C. M. T. Cold, naval officer and politician (died 1904) * 21 June – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, sculptor (died 1945) * 25 June – Frederik Jensen, stage and film actor (died 1934)
===July{{ndash}}September=== * 5 July {{ndash}} Anton Carl Illum, businessman (died 1938) * 7 July {{ndash}} Dagmar Orlamundt, actress (died 1939) * 1 September {{ndash}} Aage Giødesen, painter (died 1939) * 7 September – Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, painter (died 1958) * 17 September {{ndash}} Viggo Stuckenberg, poet (died 1905)
===October{{ndash}}December=== * 5 October {{ndash}} Louise Janssen, operatic soprano (died 1938 in France) * 11 October – Ingeborg Raunkiær, author (died 1921) * 1 November {{ndash}} Carl Hentzen, engineer (died 1937) * 21 November {{ndash}} Emma Thomsen, actress (died 1919) * 8 December {{ndash}} Frederik Riise, photographer (died 199)
==Deaths== * 2 May {{ndash}} Hans Ditmar Frederik Feddersen, civil servant and politician (died 1805) * 13 May {{ndash}} Ferdinand Thielemann. architect (born 1803) * 29 June – Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (born 1792) * 12 October {{ndash}} William Frederik Duntzfelt, businessman (born 1792) * 15 November – Frederick VII, king of Denmark (born 1808)<ref name=Frederick />
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