Events in the year 1807 in Iceland.
Incumbents
Monarch: Christian VII Governors of Iceland: Frederik Christopher Trampe
Events
Trade with Denmark and Norway ends due to the invasion of the British during the Napoleonic Wars and their capture of the neutral Danish fleet at Copenhagen, they had credible intel that Napoleon using the Continental System was going to seize that fleet and invade Great Britain. Grímsvötn erupts.
Births
16 November: Jónas Hallgrímsson, poet, writer and naturalist.
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