1813 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1813 List of years in Denmark

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: Denmark-Norway defaults on its foreign debt (Danish state bankruptcy of 1813).
• 7 December –
  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

January–March

• 3 February – Andreas Flinch, goldsmith, wood-engraver and lithographer (d. 1872)
• 8 March –
  Johannes Steenstrup, natural scientist (d. 1897
  )

• 4 April – Marie Toft, landowner (d. 1854)
• 5 May – Søren Kierkegaard, theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author (d. 1855)

July–September

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

October–December

• 29 October – Carl Ploug, writer (died 1894)

Deaths

• 9 March – Carl Frederik Stanley, sculptor (b. c. 1738)
• 30 August – David Amsel Meyer, businessman and financial advisor (born 1755)

References