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 – Otto Joachim
  Otto Joachim (politician)
  Otto Joachim, greve Moltke til Stridfeld og Walkendorf was the Minister of State of Denmark from 1824 to 1842. He was descended from Adam Gottlob Moltke, who had exercised extensive political power during the reign of Frederick V....
  
  

Undated

• The Copenhagen Art Society
  Kunstforeningen
  Kunstforeningen , now officially called Gammel Strand after its address, is an exhibition space and non-profit membership organization located at Gammel Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark...
  
   is founded by a circle of the most influential figures of the Danish art world during the Danish Golden Age.

Births

• April 16 – Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup
  Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup
  Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, , was a Danish politician, member of the Højre party. He was Interior Minister from 1865 to 1869 in the Cabinet of Frijs and Council President as well as Finance Minister from 1875 to 1894 as the leader of the Cabinet of Estrup.-Biography:Estrup was son of the...
  
  , politician, prime minister of Denmark (d. 1913
  1913 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch - HM Christian X* Prime minister - Klaus Berntsen , Carl Theodor Zahle-Events:* August 23 - The Little Mermaid is inaugurated at its current location off Langelinie in Copenhagen....
  
  )
• May 10 – Heinrich Tønnies
  Heinrich Tønnies
  Johan Georg Heinrich Ludwig Tønnies was an early German-Danish photographer who had a studio in Aalborg, Denmark.-Biography:Born in Grünenplan, Germany, he was trained as a glass painter and cutter....
  
  , photographer (d. 1903
  1903 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Johan Henrik Deuntzer-Events:* March 2 – A Social Democrat is elected as lord mayor in Copenhagen for the first time.-Undated:* The cakewalk reaches Copenhagen....
  
  )
• November 30 – Julius Exner
  Julius Exner
  Johan Julius Exner, , Danish genre painter, was born in Copenhagen to Johann Gottlieb Exner, a Czech musician from Bohemia, who came to Denmark during the Napoleonic period, and his wife Karen Jørgensdatter...
  
  , painter (d. 1910
  1910 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch - HM Frederick VIII* Prime minister - Carl Theodor Zahle -Events:* May 20 – The Danish Folketing election of 1910 is held....
  
  )