1842 in Denmark
Events from the year 1842 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian VIII
- Prime minister – Otto Joachim, Poul Christian Stemann
Births
- March 2 – Carl Jacobsen, brewer, industrialist and arts patron (died 1914)
- August 17 – Hugo Egmont Hørring, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1909)
- November 16 – Hannibal Sehested, prime minister of Denmark (died 1924)
Deaths
- October 8 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer (born 1774)