30 January: The proclamation of Frederik VIII as King of Denmark.
30 January – The proclamation of Frederik CIII as King of Denmark.
12 September – The inventor and aviation pioneer
Jacob Christian Ellehammer makes a sustained but tethered flight in his self-built
Ellehammer semi-biplane on the small
island of Lindholm [
da] outside Copenhagen, three years after the world’s first historical flight by the
Wright brothers in 1903. The flight distance is 42 meters at an altitude of over 50 centimeters.