Incumbents

• Monarch – HM Frederick VII
  Frederick VII of Denmark
  Frederick VII was a King of Denmark. He reigned from 1848 until his death. He was the last Danish monarch of the older Royal branch of the House of Oldenburg and also the last king of Denmark to rule as an absolute monarch...
  
  
• Prime minister – Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ
  Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ
  Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ was a Danish politician and mathematician. From 1842 until 1854, he was professor of mathematics and mechanics at the national military college. Andræ was elected to the Royal Danish Academy in 1853...
  
   (until 13 May), Carl Christian Hall
  Carl Christian Hall
  Carl Christian Hall , Danish statesman, son of the highly respected artisan and train-band colonel Marls Hall, was born at Christianshavn....
  
  

Births

• July – Henrik Pontoppidan
  Henrik Pontoppidan
  Henrik Pontoppidan was a realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his...
  
  , Nobel Prize
  Nobel Prize
  The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
  
  -winning writer (d. 1943
  1943 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch - HM Christian X* Prime minister - Erik Scavenius , German military rule-Events:*29 April - Some 100 prominent Danes are taken hostage by the occupying German forces in the attempt to stop sabotage by the Danish resistance movement.*29 August - The Danish government resigns,...
  
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Deaths

• June 23 – Christian Molbech
  Christian Molbech
  Christian Molbech was a Danish historian, literary critic, writer and editor of historical sources.Christian Molbech was raised in Sorø and in 1802 he graduated from Sorø Academy. 1804 he was employed at Royal Danish Library and was thus never formally trained as an historian...
  
  , historian and editor (b. 1783
  1783 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian VII* Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg-Births:* January 2 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, painter * May 11 – Peter Willemoes, naval officer...
  
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