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Frederik, Hereditary Prince of Denmark

Christiansborg Palace, 11 Oct 1753 – Amalienborg, 7 Dec 1805

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Facts and their sources

A life in time

  1. 11 Oct 1753

    Born in Christiansborg Palace

  2. 30 Oct 1789

    A daughter is born

  3. 7 Dec 1805

    Dies in Amalienborg, aged 52

Family

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Parents

Children · 1

During his lifetime

He lived through 6 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Christiansborg Palace.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1750s · Frederik, is born in Christiansborg Palace

In the news1740–1752

1740s cattle plague destroys livestock numbers

Beginning in the mid-1740s, a devastating cattle plague killed between 300,000 and 400,000 animals by the time it subsided in 1752.

The Seven Years’ War. Fought in Europe, the Americas, Africa and India, often called the first world war: Britain took Canada and India from France.Around the world · 1756–1763

The Seven Years’ War. Fought in Europe, the Americas, Africa and India, often called the first world war: Britain took Canada and India from France.

Blaue Max · CC BY-SA 4.0

Getting around

Slow travel and exhausted horses

Traveling by carriage was slow due to poor road conditions, and horses used for relays were often exhausted animals taken directly from farm work. Travelers frequently had to endure long journeys, such as the 6 to 7 days it took the mail coach to travel from Copenhagen to Hamburg.

In Europe1755

Lisbon is destroyed by an earthquake

On All Saints’ Day an earthquake, a tsunami and fires levelled Lisbon and killed tens of thousands; Europe’s thinkers argued over it for decades.