1808 in Iceland

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.