1842 in Denmark

← 1841 1840 1839 1842 in Denmark → 1843 1844 1845
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1842 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1842 in Denmark.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch – Christian VIII^[1]
• Prime minister – Otto Joachim, Poul Christian Stemann

Events[]

Births[]

• 27 February – Theodor Wessel, businessman (died 1905)
• 2 March – Carl Jacobsen, brewer, industrialist and arts patron (died 1914)
• 17 August – Hugo Egmont Hørring, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1909)
• 16 November – Hannibal Sehested, prime minister of Denmark (died 1924)

Deaths[]

• 8 October – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer (born 1774)

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