1813 in Denmark
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Events from the year 1813 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Frederick VI[1]
- Prime minister – Frederik Moltke
Events
- 5 January - The heavy financial and economic burden of the Gunboat War with England takes its monetary toll: Danmark defaults on its foreign debt (Danish state bankruptcy of 1813).
- 7 December – Battle of Bornhöved, part of the War of the Sixth Coalition, is fought Danish troops and Swedish cavalry at the small village of Bornhöft in the Duchy of Schleswig and results in Swedish victory.
- 10 December – The Battle of Sehested is fought between Danish and Swedish (with Prussian-Russian battalions) troops at Sehested in Holstein and results in Danish victory.
Undated
Births
- 3 February – Andreas Flinch, goldsmith, wood-engraver and lithographer (d. 1872)
- 8 March – Johannes Steenstrup, natural scientist (d. 1897)
- 13 July – Theophil Hansen, architect who later became an Austrian citizen (d. 1891)
Deaths
- 9 March – Carl Frederik Stanley, sculptor (b. c. 1738)
References
- ^ "Frederick VI | king of Denmark and Norway". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
