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

• Emil Christian Hansen
  Emil Christian Hansen
  Emil Christian Hansen was a Danish mycologist and fermentation physiologist.Born in Ribe, he financed his education by writing novels and he was awarded a gold medal in 1876 for an essay on fungi....
  
   from Carlsberg develops a method for propagating pure yeast which revolutionises the brewing industry. The yeast is named Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis
  Saccharomyces pastorianus
  Saccharomyces pastorianus is a yeast, used industrially for the production of lager beer. It is a synonym of the yeast species Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, which was originally described in 1883 by Emil Christian Hansen, who was working for the Danish brewery Carlsberg.-Genomics:As S...
  
  after the brewery.

Deaths

• May 2 – Christian Hansen
  Christian Hansen (architect)
  Hans Christian Hansen was a Historicist Danish architect who worked 18 years in Greece where he was active in the transformation of Athens from a small town to the country's capital and an international metropolis...
  
  , architect (b. 1803)
• July 24 – Jens Adolf Jerichau
  Jens Adolf Jerichau
  Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau was a Danish sculptor. He belonged to the generation immediately after Bertel Thorvaldsen, for whom he worked briefly in Tome, but gradually moved away from the static Neoclassicism he inherited from him and towards a more dynamic and realistic style.He was a...
  
  , painter (b. 1816
  1816 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick VI* Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke-Births:* April 17 – Jens Adolf Jerichau, sculptor * June 13 – Dankvart Dreyer, painter...
  
  )