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....
  
  

Events

• March 5 – The Music Society
  Musikforeningen
  Musikforeningen in Copenhagen was Denmark's most important concert venue in the 19th century. It operated from 1838 to 1931 but it was especially under the leadership of Niels Gade that it became a meeting place for the city's music life with its own symphony orchestra and choir. Carl Nielsen was...
  
   is founded in Copenhagen
  Copenhagen
  Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
  
  , on Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse's birthday, and for almost a century it remains the most important music venue in Denmark

Births

• May 12 – Ludvig Grundtvig
  Ludvig Grundtvig
  Ludvig Grundtvig was a Danish photographer and portrait painter. He based many of his later paintings on his own photographs.-Early life:Born in Nykøbing Falster, Grundtvig studied at the Danish Academy from 1851 to 1857, winning two awards....
  
  , photographer (d. 1901
  1901 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Hannibal Sehested , Johan Henrik Deuntzer-Events:* April 3 – A Folketing election is held...
  
  )
• August 4 – Vilhelm Dahlerup
  Vilhelm Dahlerup
  Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup was a Danish architect who specialized in the Historicist style. One of the most productive and noted Danish architects of the 19th century, he is behind many of the most known buildings and landmarks of his time and has more than any other single architect contributed to the...
  
  , architect (died 1907
  1907 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch - HM Frederick VIII* Prime minister - J. C. Christensen-Births:* July 4 - Henning Holck-Larsen, engineer, co-founder of Indian engineering company Larsen & Toubro * November 4 - Henry Heerup, painter, sculptor...
  
  )
• Augsut 5 – Vilhelm Bissen
  Vilhelm Bissen
  Christian Gottlieb Vilhelm Bissen was a Danish sculptor, son of Herman Wilhelm Bissen. He is mainly known for a number of statues around Copenhagen, including the equestrian statue of Absalon on Højbro Plads and the Stork Fountain on the adjoining Amagertorv...
  
  , sculptor (died 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....
  
  )