Events from the year 1850 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Frederick VII^[1]
• Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke

• 30 March – All Danish Gold Coast Settlements are sold to Britain and incorporated into the British Gold Coast
• 16 July: The Danish army moves into Slesvig.

• 5 March – Hans Christian Andersen's poem Danmark, mit fædreland is published in the newspaper Fædrelandet.^[2]
• 8 May – Hans Christian Andersen's Danmark, mit fædreland is first time performed publicly as a song by a men's choir to a melody by Henrik Rung at a concert arranged by the Scandinavian Society in the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen to raise money for a monument commemorating the Danish victory in the Battle of Fredericia.^[2]

• 14 January – Elisabeth Wandel, painter (died 1926)
• 22 June – Frants Henningsen, painter (died 1908)
• 27 June – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, mathematician (died 1916)
• 10 July – Valdemar Gætje, master baker and the first director of the Union of Danish Employers and Master Craftsmen (died 1905)
• 2 November – Antonio Jacobsen, painter (died 1921)
• 29 December – Valdemar Irminger, painter (died 1938)

• 20 January – Adam Oehlenschläger, poet (born 1779)
• 9 May – Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (born 1788.
• 12 May – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (born 1775)
• 12 November – Christian Frederik Zeuthen, landowner (born 1794)^[3]

• 25 July – Adolph Stramboe, ballet dancer (born 1801)