Incumbents

• Monarch – HM Christian IX
  Christian IX of Denmark
  Christian IX was King of Denmark from 16 November 1863 to 29 January 1906.Growing up as a prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which had ruled Denmark since 1448, Christian was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Danish...
  
  
• Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup
  Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup
  Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, , was a Danish politician, member of the Højre party. He was Interior Minister from 1865 to 1869 in the Cabinet of Frijs and Council President as well as Finance Minister from 1875 to 1894 as the leader of the Cabinet of Estrup.-Biography:Estrup was son of the...
  
  

Undated

• January 2 – FLSmidth
  FLSmidth
  FLSmidth & Co. A/S is a global engineering company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Employing about 11,300 people worldwide, it provides the global cement and mineral industries with plants, machinery, services and know-how. FLSmidth is listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange and has offices in more...
  
  , now a leading supplier of cement production technology worldwide, is founded by Frederik Læssøe Smidth as a small "technical bureau" based in a single room of his mother's apartment.