Thursday, May 30, 2013
1157-10-23 - The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
1219-06-15 - King Valdemar brought victory for Denmark
1219-06-15 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck.
1340-04-01 - Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
1397-06-17 - Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
1397-06-30 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha
1440-04-09 - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
1448-09-28 - Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
1520-01-18 - Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde
1523-01-20 - Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1534-07-04 - Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1544-05-23 - German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
1564-05-31 - Battle on Gotland: Lubeck & Denmark beat Sweden
1570-12-13 - Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin
1575-02-11 - King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe
1582-12-15 - Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
1588-04-04 - Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark
1590-05-17 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland.
1613-01-20 - Peace of Knarodends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
1628-04-29 - Sweden & Denmark sign defense treaty against Duke of Wallenstein
1634-10-11 - the Burchardi flood — "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1645-08-13 - Sweden & Denmark sign Peace of Brömsebro
1654-09-25 - England & Denmark sign trade agreement
1658-03-08 - Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1660-05-27 - Denmark & Sweden sign ceasefire
1660-06-06 - Denmark & Sweden signs peace treaty
1660-10-13 - Denmark king Frederik III makes coup
1666-10-25 - Brandenburg/Brunswick/Denmark/Neth form anti-French Quadruple Alliance
1673-07-11 - Netherlands & Denmark signs defense treaty
1676-12-04 - Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
1699-11-22 - Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden
1700-02-19 - Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark
1700-08-08 - Denmark & Sweden sign peace treaty
1700-08-18 - Swedish, English & Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
1720-06-09 - Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm
1720-07-03 - Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty
1727-04-06 - Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover
1730-10-12 - Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark
1780-07-09 - Denmark declares neutrality
1792-05-16 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
1794-03-27 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1807-09-02 - The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
1814-01-14 - King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel
1814-05-17 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
1822-05-30 - House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1822-06-16 - Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
1822-06-18 - Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey & Peter Poyas arrested in SC
1822-07-14 - Slave revolt in SC under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas
1844-11-23 - Independence of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark.
1849-06-05 - Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1864-05-09 - Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
1894-01-01 - Denmark adopts Mid-European time
1902-04-18 - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1905-11-18 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1908-04-23 - Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth & Sweden signs North Sea accord
1909-03-18 - Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
1911-03-08 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1912-12-21 - Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
1915-06-05 - Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1916-08-04 - Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
1917-01-17 - US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands (or 3/21)
1920-03-08 - Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
1922-04-18 - Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0
1924-04-11 - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections
1924-07-10 - Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim
1926-03-12 - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926-07-10 - Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1929-04-24 - Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1938-02-19 - Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark
1940-04-09 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders)
1943-08-28 - Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
1943-08-29 - Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1943-10-01 - Germans attack Jews in Denmark
1944-05-24 - Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1944-06-17 - Iceland declares independence from Denmark
1945-05-04 - German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1945-05-05 - Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
1947-04-10 - King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1947-04-20 - Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark
1948-04-01 - Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark.
1948-10-01 - Radio Denmark begins transmitting
1949-02-12 - Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
1949-10-20 - Eugenie Anderson becomes 1st woman US ambassador (to Denmark)
1953-06-05 - Denmark adopts a new constitution
1955-02-01 - HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
1961-07-04 - Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Skørping in Denmark
1964-06-04 - Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark
1964-09-25 - Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
1967-05-11 - Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for EG membership
1970-07-15 - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1971-04-27 - Curt Flood resigns Senators after 13 games & departs for Denmark
1973-01-01 - Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market
1973-09-01 - 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)
1982-09-03 - Jorgensen government in Denmark resigns
1991-08-25 - Norway & Denmark recognize independence of former USSR Baltic reps
1992-06-26 - Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship
1994-04-22 - In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
1994-09-22 - Rasmussen government in Denmark, resigns
2000-07-01 - The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
2007-03-01 - "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
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