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See also:CHRISTIAN VIII . (1786–1848), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Denmark and See also:Norway, the eldest son of the See also:crown See also:prince See also:Frederick and See also:Sophia Frederica of See also:Mecklenburg-See also:Schwerin, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:September '786 at Christiansborg See also:castle. He inherited the talents of his highly gifted See also:mother, and his amiability and handsome features made him very popular in See also:Copenhagen. His unfortunate first See also:marriage with his See also:cousin See also:Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was dissolved in '8'o. In May 1813 he was sent as See also:stadtholder to Norway to promote the See also:loyalty of the Northmen to the See also:dynasty, whicJ' had been very rudely shaken by the disastrous results of Frederick VI.'s See also:adhesion to the falling fortunes of See also:Napoleon. He did all he could personally to strengthen the bonds between the Norwegians and the royal See also:house of Denmark, and though his endeavours were opposed by the so-called See also:Swedish party, which desired a dynastic See also:union with See also:Sweden, he placed himself at the See also:head of the See also:Norwegian party of See also:independence, and was elected See also:regent of Norway by an See also:assembly of notables on the '6th of See also:February '814. This See also:election was confirmed by a Storthing held at Eidsvold on the loth of See also:April, and on the 17th of May Christian was elected king of Norway, despite the protests of the Swedish party. Christian next attempted to See also:interest the See also:great See also:powers in his cause, butwithout success. On being summoned by the commissioners of the allied powers at Copenhagen to bring about a union between Norway and Sweden in accordance with the terms of the treaty of See also:Kiel, and then return to Denmark, he replied that, as a constitutional king, he could do nothing without the consent of the Storthing, to the See also:convocation of which a suspension of hostilities on the See also:part of Sweden was the See also:condition precedent. Sweden refusing Christian's conditions, a See also:short See also:campaign ensued, in which Christian was easily worsted by the See also:superior skill and forces of the Swedish crown prince (Bernadotte). The brief See also:war was finally concluded by the See also:convention of See also:Moss on the '4th of See also:August 1814 (see NouwAY: See also:History). Henceforth Christian's suspected democratic principles made him persona ingratissima at all the reactionary See also:European courts, his own See also:court included, and he and his second wife, See also:Caroline Amelia of Augustenburg, whom he married in 18'5, lived in See also:comparative retirement as the leaders of the See also:literary and scientific society of Copenhagen. It was not till '83' that old King Frederick gave him a seat in the See also:council of See also:state. On the 13th of See also:December 1839 he ascended the Danish See also:throne as Christian VIII. The Liberal party had high hopes of " the giver of constitutions," but he disappointed his admirers by steadily rejecting every Liberal project. Administrative reform was the only reform he would promise. He died of See also:blood-poisoning on the loth of See also:January '848.
See Just See also:Matthias Thiele, Christian den Ottende (Copenhagen,' 848) ; Yngvar Nielsen, Bidrag til Norges Historie (See also:Christiania, 1882–1886).
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