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Multiple timeline of Denmark

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This scheme is a multiple timelime of the history of Denmark, part of the series of Series of multiple timelines of European countries and territories.
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The Kingdom of Denmark (Kongeriget Danmark) is a kingdom with a hereditary queen, a parliament, the People's Assembly elected in free multi-party elections and a government responsible to the parliament. Denmark is member of the European Union. Denmark contains as self-governing countries Faroe Islands and Greenland.
  • 300s: Present-day Denmark is populated by Germanic tribes of the Danes, Jutes and Angles.
  • 5th century: The Angles and part of the Jutes settle in what is now England. The remaining Jutes integrate into the Danes.
Kingdom of Denmark
Duchy of Schleswig
  • 1183: Valdemar becomes as Danish fief duke of Schleswig.
  • 1202: Duke Valdemar becomes as Valdemar II king of Denmark.
  • 1380: King Olaf II of Denmark is also king of Norway. Due to the personal union of Denmark and Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland become joint Danish/Norwegian possessions.
  • 1389: Queen regnant Margrete I of Denmark and Norway becomes queen of Sweden.
  • 1397: She founds the Kalmar Union, a personal union of the three Scandinavian kingdoms until 1523 with some intervals.
  • 1442: Christoffer III becomes also king of Norway.
  • 1443: Christoffer III becomes also count-palatinate of Neumarkt.
  • 1448: After the death of Christoffer III, the personal union ends. Count Christian VII of Oldenburg becomes king Christian of Denmark.
  • 1450: Christian becomes also king of Norway and resigns as count of Oldenburg in favour of his brother Gerhard VI.
  • 1457: Christian becomes king of Sweden.
  • 1460: King Christian of Denmark becomes count.
Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway

  • 1544: Schleswig is partitioned between the dukes of the Holstein branches.
  • 1848: Germans in Schleswig and Holstein declare war on king Frederik VII of Denmark to keep Schleswig and Holstein united as a German state. The Danes wish to maintain South Jutland as a Danish area. The king soon yields to the Danish demands, and accepts the end of absolutism.
  • 1849: Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy and gets a bicameral parliament, with a chamber elected on a limited suffrage, the Folketing, and a indirectly elected senate, the Landsting. Both chambers have the same powers.
  • 1850: Denmark cedes the Danish Gold Coast to the United Kingdom.
  • 1848: Germans in Schleswig and Holstein declare war on king Frederik VII of Denmark to keep Schleswig and Holstein united as a German state. Holstein introduces together with Schleswig a joint parliament with universal male suffrage.
Kingdom of Prussia
  • 1866: Schleswig and Holstein are annexed to Prussia.
North German Confederation
  • 1867: Prussia joins the North German Confederation.


  • 1915: The constitution is changed, making elected on a universal suffrage in free multi-party elections.
  • 1917: Denmark sells after a referendum in 1916, the Danish West Indies to the United States.
  • 1918: King Christian X of Denmark becomes also king of Iceland, formerly a dependency of Denmark.
German Empire
  • 1871: The North German Confederation is succeeded by the German Empire.
  • 1920: In plebiscites the voters of Northern Schleswig decide to become part of Denmark and the voters of Southern Schleswig to remain part of Germany. The same year Denmark is a founding member of the League of Nations.

  1. ^ In 1993 with the Maastricht Treaty, signed in 1991, the European Economic Community is renamed into the European Community, the institutions of the three communities (the European Community, the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Coal and Steel Community) merge into the institutions of the European Communities, being the first pillar of the European Union. In 2009 with the Treaty of Lisbon, signed in 2007, the European Community is dissolved into the European Union, becoming an overall legal unit.