1807 in Denmark

Events from the year 1807 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

Events

The assault at Classens Have on 31 August 1807.

British destruction of ship at Holmen, copy after painting by C. W. Eckersberg.

• 7 January – England declares an embargo against France and its allies, including Denmark.
• 29 January – The Danish fortress Frederiksnagore surrenders to the British forces and will remain occupied until 1815. Trankebar and the Danish West Indies are also occupied by the British during the conflict.
• 17 April – The Royal Institute for the Deaf is founded in Copenhagen.^[1]
• 6 May – Mozart's Don Juan is performed in Copenhagen for the first time, with Édouard Du Puy in the title role.^[1]
• 29 August – The Battle of Køge, also known as the 'Clogs Battle', between British troops besieging Copenhagen and Danish militia raised on Zealand ends in British victory.
• 16 August – British troops land at Vedbæk.
• 29–31 August – Battle at Classens Have which is destroyed.^[1]
• 2 September – Bombardment of Copenhagen starts: 290 properties burn and another 1,500 to 1,600 are damaged; 2,000 people are killed or wounded; and the Church of Our Lady and the University are among the buildings which burn.^[1]
• 7 September – Peymann, the commander of Copenhagen, surrenders to the British after four days of bombardment of the city.
• 21 October – The British sail away with the Danish naval fleet (17 ships of the line, 12 frigates, 8 brigs, 35 smaller vessels and 81 transport ships) after destroying the ships under construction at the Holmen naval base.^[1]
• 31 October – Denmark is forced into an alliance with Napoleon.
• 4 November – England declares war on Denmark.^[1]

Undated

• From this year annual art exhibitions are held at Charlottenborg.^[1]
• The first step towards the establishment of the museum for Nordic antiquities are made when a small collection is exhibited in the loft above Trinitatis Church in Copenhagen.^[1]

Births

• 30 March – Henrik Rung, composer, conductor and vocal pedagogue (died 1871)
• 5 June – Georg Hilker, decorative painter during the Danish Golden Age (died 1875)
• 22 August – Emma Hartmann, composer (died 1851)
• 18 September – Mads Johansen Lange, trader, "King of Bali" (died 1856)

References

See also