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.
• 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 troops at Sehested in Holstein and results in Danish victory.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 3 February – Andreas Flinch, goldsmith, wood-engraver and lithographer
• 8 March – Johannes Steenstrup, natural scientist

AprilJune

• 4 April – Marie Toft, landowner
• 5 May – Søren Kierkegaard, theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author
• 20 June Frederik Wilhelm Dannemand, military officer and landowner

JulySeptember

• 13 July – Theophil Hansen, architect who later became an Austrian citizen

OctoberDecember

• 29 October Carl Ploug, writer

Deaths

• 9 March – Carl Frederik Stanley, sculptor
• 29 July Jens Jensen Berg, sea captain and businessman
• 7 August Peter Schiønning, naval officer
• 30 August David Amsel Meyer, businessman and financial advisor