Events from the year 1855 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Frederick VII
Prime minister – Peter Georg Bang
Events
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.
Births
JanuaryMarch
17 January Alfred Benzon, pharmacist (died 1922) 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)
JulySeptember
11 August Erik Henningsen, painter (died 1839)
OctoberDecember
16 October – Carl Andreas Koefoed, agronomist (died 1948) 12 October – Charlotte Norrie, nurse and women's rights activist (died 1940) 20 October – Poul Simon Christiansen, painter and church decorator (died 1933)