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 – Johan Henrik Deuntzer
  Johan Henrik Deuntzer
  Johan Henrik Deuntzer was a Danish politician, member of the Liberal Venstre party until 1905 where he joined the Danish Social Liberal Party...
  
  

Events

• September 17 – The first Danish cinema, Kosmorama at Østerbrogade
  Østerbrogade
  Østerbrogade is the principal shopping street and thoroughfare in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It extends from Lille Trianglen at the north-eastern tip of The Lakes, passes Trianglen, and continues to Svanemøllen station from where it becomes Strandvejen.-History:Østerbrogade...
  
   in Copenhagen
  Copenhagen
  Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
  
  , opens.

Undated

• April – The fingerprint technique
  Fingerprint
  A fingerprint in its narrow sense is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. In a wider use of the term, fingerprints are the traces of an impression from the friction ridges of any part of a human hand. A print from the foot can also leave an impression of friction ridges...
  
   is adopted by the Copenhagen Police Force.
• The electrified tramway
  Tram
  A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...
  
   is extended from Tuborg
  Tuborg Brewery
  Tuborg is a Danish brewing company founded in 1873 by Carl Frederik Tietgen. Since 1970 it has been part of Carlsberg. The brewery was founded in Hellerup, a northern suburb of Copenhagen.-History:...
  
   to Klampenborg
  Klampenborg
  Klampenborg is a northern suburb to Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located in Gentofte Municipality, directly on Øresund, between Taarbæk and Skovshoved. Like other neighbourhoods along the Øresund coast, Klampenborg is an affluent area with many large houses....
  
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• The first vacuum cleaner
  Vacuum cleaner
  A vacuum cleaner, commonly referred to as a "vacuum," is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors, and optionally from other surfaces as well. The dirt is collected by either a dustbag or a cyclone for later disposal...
  
  s attive in the country.

Deaths

• September 24 – 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...
  
  
• December 6 – Johan Bartholdy
  Johan Bartholdy
  Conrad Johan Bartholdy was a Danish Danish organist, composer, singing teacher, conductor and author of music theory books. He was a Titular Professor in 1900....
  
  , composer (born 1853
  1853 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick VII* Prime minister – Christian Albrecht Bluhme , Anders Sandøe Ørsted-Births:* March 2 – Johan Bartholdy, composer * December 9 – Laurits Tuxen, painter...