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....
  
  

Deaths

• February 9 – Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann
  Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann
  Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann was a German-Danish politician, businessman and patron of the arts. His father was Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann.-Early life and career:Ernst von Schimmelmann was born in Dresden...
  
  , politician, businessman and patron of the arts (born 1747
  1747 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick V* Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg-Births:* August 4 – Olfert Fischer, vice admiral...
  
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• November 5 – Johan Frederik Clemens
  Johan Frederik Clemens
  Johan Frederik Clemens , Danish printmaker in etching, was born in Gollnow near Stettin in Pomerania, to a poor Saxon weaver, Johan David Clemens, and his wife Anna Francken...
  
  , engraver (b. 1749
  1749 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick V* Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg-Events:* January 3 – The newspaper Berlingske is first published by Ernst Henrich Berling, making it the oldest Danish newspaper still in printing....
  
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