1813 in Denmark

Events from the year 1813 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI
• Prime minister – Frederik Moltke

Events

• 5 January - The heavy financial and economic burden of the Gunboat War with England takes its monetary toll: Denmark-Norway 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.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 11 January Frederik Marcus Knuth, landowner, civil servant and politician (born 1856)
• 3 February – Andreas Flinch, goldsmith, wood-engraver and lithographer (d. 1872)
• 8 March – Johannes Steenstrup, natural scientist (d. 1897)

AprilJune

• 4 April – Marie Toft, landowner (d. 1854)
• 5 May – Søren Kierkegaard, theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author (d. 1855)
• 20 June Frederik Wilhelm Dannemand, military officer and landowner (died 1888)
• 28 June Johan Carl Christian Petersen, seaman, expedition member, interpretor (died 1880)

JulySeptember

• 13 July – Theophil Hansen, architect who later became an Austrian citizen (d. 1891 in Austria)

OctoberDecember

• 22 October Mozart Waagepetersen, businessman (born 1885)
• 10 October Frederik Liebmann, botanist (died1856)
• 29 October Carl Ploug, writer (died 1894)

Deaths

• 9 March – Carl Frederik Stanley, sculptor (b. c. 1738)
• 29 July Jens Jensen Berg, sea captain and businessman (born 1760)
• 7 August Peter Schiønning, naval officer (born 1732)
• 30 August David Amsel Meyer, businessman and financial advisor (born 1755)

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