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

• April 17 – Jens Adolf Jerichau
  Jens Adolf Jerichau
  Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau was a Danish sculptor. He belonged to the generation immediately after Bertel Thorvaldsen, for whom he worked briefly in Tome, but gradually moved away from the static Neoclassicism he inherited from him and towards a more dynamic and realistic style.He was a...
  
  , sculptor (died 1883
  1883 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup-Undated:* Emil Christian Hansen from Carlsberg develops a method for propagating pure yeast which revolutionises the brewing industry. The yeast is named Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis after the brewery.-Deaths:*...
  
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• June 13 – Dankvart Dreyer
  Dankvart Dreyer
  Dankvart Dreyer was a Danish landscape painter of the Copenhagen School of painters who was educated under the guidance of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg...
  
  , painter (died 1852
  1852 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick VII* Prime minister – Adam Wilhelm Moltke , Christian Albrecht Bluhme-Births:* March 1 – Martin Borch, architect * May 25 – Christian Hedemann, photographer...
  
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• August 7 – Carit Etlar
  Carit Etlar
  Carit Etlar, the better-known pen name of Carl Brosbøll , was a Danish author, known mostly for his 1853 book Gjøngehøvdingen about the eponymous Svend Poulsen Gønge.-Biography:...
  
  , author (died 1900
  1900 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Hugo Egmont Hørring , Hannibal Sehested -Births:* April 11 – Kai Normann Andersen, composer and film score composer...
  
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• December 8 – Edvard Helsted
  Edvard Helsted
  Edvard Mads Ebbe Helsted was a Danish composer. He was born in Copenhagen and died in Frederiksborg.-References:*This article was initially translated from Danish Wikipedia...
  
  , composer (died (1900
  1900 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Hugo Egmont Hørring , Hannibal Sehested -Births:* April 11 – Kai Normann Andersen, composer and film score composer...
  
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Deaths

• December 2 – Charlotte Schimmelmann
  Charlotte Schimmelmann
  Magdalene Charlotte Hedevig Schimmelmann was a Danish noble woman and salonist.-Biography:Magdalene Charlotte Schubart was born at Fossum in Skien, Norway to Lieutenant Carl Rudolph Schubart and Inger Løvenskiold . On the 25th May 1782, she married the statesman Count Ernst Heinrich won Schimmelan...
  
  , salonist and patron (born 1757)