Danish Christiania · event 7 of 7

1811

A university at last. After decades of Norwegian petitioning, Frederik VI permits a university in Christiania — the country’s first, and a precondition for everything that follows. Until then, Norwegians had to study in Copenhagen.

The Danish Christiania era

  1. 1624
  2. 1647
  3. 1686
  4. 1716
  5. 1750
  6. 1801
  7. 1811

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