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...
  
  

Deaths

• December 12 – Johan Nicolai Madvig
  Johan Nicolai Madvig
  Johan Nicolai Madvig , was a Danish philologist and Kultus Minister.He was born on the island of Bornholm. He was educated at the classical school of Frederiksborg and the University of Copenhagen. In 1828 he became reader, and in 1829 professor of Latin language and literature at Copenhagen, and...
  
  , philologist and politician (b. 1804
  1804 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian VII* Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff-Births:* March 4 – Wilhelm Bendz, painter * August 7 – Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist and politician...
  
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