Events in the year 1808 in Iceland.
Incumbents
Monarch: Christian VII (Until 13 March 1808) Frederick VI (onwards) Governors of Iceland: Frederik Christopher Trampe
Events
13 March: Frederick VI becomes King, following the death of his father Christian VII. Napoleonic Wars: English raiders arrived, after sinking or capturing most of the Danish-Norwegian Navy in the Battle of Copenhagen, the amount of gunpowder in Iceland was so small that the governor of Iceland, Count Trampe, could not offer any resistance. The British naturalist William Hooker traveled around Iceland for the first time.
Births
3 July: Konráð Gíslason, grammarian and philologist.
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