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 Edvard Rotwitt
  Carl Edvard Rotwitt
  Carl Edvard Rotwitt was a Danish politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark 1859-1860 as leader of the Cabinet of Rotwitt. He died while in office, only 47 years old....
  
   (until 8 February), 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....
  
   (from 24 February)

Births

• December 15 – Niels Ryberg Finsen
  Niels Ryberg Finsen
  Niels Ryberg Finsen was a Faroese-Danish physician and scientist of Icelandic descent. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has...
  
  , 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 physician (died 1904
  1904 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Johan Henrik Deuntzer-Events:* September 17 – The first Danish cinema, Kosmorama at Østerbrogade in Copenhagen, opens.-Undated:...
  
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Deaths

• January 30 – Jørgen Hansen Koch
  Jørgen Hansen Koch
  Jørgen Hansen Koch was a Neoclassical Danish architect. He was the leader of the national Danish building administration from 1835 and director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1844 to 1849.-Biography:...
  
  , architect (died 1787
  1787 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian VII* Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff-Births:* September 4 – Jørgen Hansen Koch, architect * November 22 – Rasmus Rask, scholar and philologist -See also:...
  
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• May 1 – Anders Sandøe Ørsted
  Anders Sandøe Ørsted
  Anders Sandøe Ørsted was a Danish politician and jurist. He served as the Prime Minister of Denmark in 1853-1854 as leader of the Cabinet of Ørsted....
  
  , jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1778
  1778 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian VII* Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg-Births:* December 21 – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Denmark -See also:...
  
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