Incumbents

• Monarch – HM Frederick VI
  Frederick VI of Denmark
  Frederick VI reigned as King of Denmark , and as king of Norway .-Regent of Denmark:Frederick's parents were King Christian VII and Caroline Matilda of Wales...
  
  
• Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke
  Joachim Godske Moltke
  Joachim Godske Moltke was Prime Minister of Denmark. He was also father of Prime Minister Adam Wilhelm Moltke and the son of Danish diplomat Adam Gottlob Moltke....
  
  

Births

• February 16 – Wilhelm Sponneck
  Wilhelm Sponneck
  Wilhelm Carl Eppingen Sponneck was a Danish nobleman and Minister of Finance. In 1863, he accompanied 17 year old Prince Vilhelm of Denmark to Greece where Vilhelm had just been elected king...
  
  , nobleman and politician, Danish finance minister (d. 1888
  1888 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup-Undated:* The Nordic Exhibition of 1888 takes place in Copenhagen.-Births:* March 15 – Sophus Nielsen, footballer...
  
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• December 29 – Hans Jørgen Hammer
  Hans Jørgen Hammer
  Hans Jørgen Hammer was a Danish artist who specialized in genre painting.-Biography:...
  
  , painter (d. 1882
  1882 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup-Undated:* January 2 – FLSmidth, now a leading supplier of cement production technology worldwide, is founded by Frederik Læssøe Smidth as a small "technical bureau" based in a single room of his mother's...
  
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