Events from the year 1847 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Christian VIII
Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann
Events
26 June – The first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark, the railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, was completed for the Zealand Railway Company () by British engineering company William Radford. 1217 July The 5th Scandinavian Scientist Conference is held in Copenhagen. 10 November – The first beer is brewed at J.C. Jacobsen's new Carlsberg brewery on Valby Hill in Copenhagen.
Culture
Art
Wilhelm Marstrand paints his Italian Osteria Scene.
Births
JanuaryMarch
24 February Charles Ambt, engineer (died 1919) 8 March – Anton Marius Andersen, American Lutheran minister (died 1941)
AprilJune
JulySeptember
11 April Axel Helsted, painter (died 1907)
OctoberDecember
13 October – Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (died 1928) 21 October – Edvard Brandes, politician, author and editor (died 1931) 3 December – Arthur Ivan Allin, musician (died 1926) 16 December Bertha Wegmann, painter (died 1926) 25 December Albert Jensen, architect (died 1913)
Deaths
12 November – William Christopher Zeise, chemist (born 1789]) 17 November Henriette Jørgensen, actress (born 1791) 17 December Conrad Christian Bøhndel, painter and lithographer (born 1779)