Events from the year 1844 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Christian VIII
Prime minister – Poul Christian Stemann
Events
Søren Kierkegaard publishes Philosophical Fragments.
Undated
Births
JanuaryMarch
12 January – Louis Hasselriis, sculptor (died 1912) 13 January Peter Gottfred Ramm, military officer, landowner and company founder (died 1917) 1 February – Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes, economist, writer, and editor (died 1892)
AprilJune
11 April – Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, politician (died 1917) 12 June Klaus Berntsen, politician (died 1927) Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (died 1877)
JulySeptember
20 September Emilie West, educator (died 1907)
OctoberDecember
9 November Andreas Riis Carstensen, painter (died 1906) 1 December – Alexandra of Denmark, queen-empress consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1925 in the United Kingdom) 4 December – Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers, soldier and botanist (died 1903) 6 December – Rogert Møller, architect (died 1918)
Deaths
7 March – Christian Horneman, miniature painter (born 1765) 15 March – Adam August Müller, painter (born 1811) 24 March – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (born 1770) 16 December – Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (born 1770) 24 December – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (born 1803)