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The most important events in Danish history
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Early Period

982: London is plundered by the Vikings.
1043: King Magnus defeats the Wends at the Battle of Lyrskov Hede.
23rd of October 1157: King Valdemar defeats Svend at Grathe Hede in the Danish civil war.
21st of May 1184: A Danish fleet of 125 ships under Absalon defeat a Vendic fleet of 500 ships off Rygen. 447 Vendic ships are captured. Only a few Danish ships are lost.
15th of June 1219: At the Battle of Lyndanis in Estonia, the Danish flag falls from the sky. Or so the myth tells.
1362: King Valdemar defeats a Hanseatic fleet that are besieging Helsingborg and force Lubeck to make peace.

1450-1520 The Union Wars

28th of September 1497: King Hans and his army of German mercenaries, defeat a Swedish army at the Battle of Rotebro.
17th of February 1500:
King Hans is defeated in Ditmarksken and looses the Swedish throne.
6th of April 1520: A Danish army defeats a Swedish peasant army at Uppsala and occupies Stockholm.
8th of November 1520: King Christian II orders the Swedish noblemen executed. The day becomes known as the Blood bath of Stockholm.

1534-1536 War with Lubeck and the Danish Civil War

9th of June 1535: A Danish-Swedish fleet fight a sea battle with the German state of Lubeck. The battle ends without a winner. But in the coming days, the Lubeck fleet is destroyed.
11th of June 1536: In the Danish Civil War, a peasant army is massacred by Christian the III´s soldiers, at the Battle at Oxnebjerg.

1563-1570 The Seven Year War

25th of January 1571: A peace treaty ends the Seven Year War between Sweden and Denmark.
30th of May 1564: A Danish fleet under command of Herluf Trolle, defeat a Swedish fleet between Oland and Gotland.

1611-1613 The Kalmar War

1611: War between Denmark and Sweden breaks out, when Sweden wants to break Denmarks monopoly of the trade to Russia.
18th of January 1613:
Denmark and Sweden sign a peace treaty.

1618-1648 The Thirty Years War

1618: Denmark intervene in the war between Catholics and Protestants.
1626: The Danish Army under command of Christian IV is defeated by a Catholic Army at Lutter am Barenberg.
1628: At the Battle of Wolgast Christan IV is defeated by a German army and is forced to make peace.

1643-1645 Thorsteinson War

1st of July 1644: The Danish Navy, meets the Swedish Navy by Kolberg Heide. It ends in a Danish strategic victory when the Swedes withdraw.
16th of May 1644:
A Danish fleet defeats a Dutch fleet, which has been sent as reinforcement for Sweden by Lister Dyb.
13th of August 1645: Denmark and Sweden make peace in Bromsebro after the Torstensson War. Denmark are forced to give up Gotland, Osel, Halland and a part of Norway.

1657-1658 1st Swedish War

1st of June 1657: Denmark declares war on Sweden in the 1st Swedish War.
18th of February 1657: Denmark and Sweden make peace in the 1st Swedish War. Denmark loses Skaane, Hven, Bornholm and a part of Norway.

1658-1660 2nd Swedish War

10th of February 1659: In the 2nd Swedish War, Swedish troops storm Copenhagen, but are repelled. The Danish losses are 12 soldiers, while several thousand Swedish soldiers lose their lives.

1675-1679 The Scanian War

29th of June 1675: Danish troops lands at Raa in Sweden. This is the start of the Skaanske War.
3rd of December 1675: In the Skaanske War, the Danish and Swedish army meet at Lund. This result in a Danish defeat and it is the bloodiest battle fought between Sweden and Denmark. 9000 soldiers are killed.
1st of July 1677: A Danish fleet under command of Niels Juul, defeats a Swedish fleet in the Bay of Koege.

1700-1720 The Great Nordic War

4th of August 1700: The Great Nordic War breaks out, when Swedish troops land at Sjaeland.
15th of March 1709:
In the Great Nordic War, Danish troops are defeated at Helsingborg and pull out of Sweden.
28th of October 1709: Denmark declares war on Sweden in the Great Nordic War after Karl XII is defeated at Poltava by the Russians.
24th of April 1715: In the Great Nordic War, a Swedish fleet is defeated by Femern.
3rd of July 1720: Denmark and Sweden makes peace in the Great Nordic War. Denmark receives 600.000 Rigsdaler as retribution.

1788 War with Sweden

29th of September 1788: The Danish Army defeat the Swedish Army by Kvistrumbro. This is the only battle of the war.

1800-1813 The Napoleonic Wars

25th of July 1800: A gunbattle breaks out when four British warships attemts to search a Danish convoy.
2nd of April 1801:
A Danish-English sea battle takes place outside Copenhagen. It becomes known as Slaget på Reden. Or the Battle of Copenhagen in English.
21st of October 1807: As a part of the term of surrender, most of the Danish Navy is handed over to England, 79 ships in all.
4th of November 1807: England declares war on Denmark.
10th of December 1809: Denmark and Sweden sign a peace treaty in Jonkoping.
14th of January 1814: A peace treaty is signed with England and Sweden in Kiel.

1848-1850 The Three Year War

24th of March 1848: Schleswig-Holstein insurgents capture the fortress of Rendsburg and thereby trigger the Three Year War.
9th of April 1848: The town of Bov falls to the Danish Army: This is the first battle between Danish forces and the insurgent army.
23rd of April 1848: Danish and Prussian forces meet at Busdorf (Schleswig) and by nightfall the Danes retreat. The same day Mysunde is occupied by Schleswig-Holstein troops.
24th of April 1848: The German forces are stopped at Oeversee.
28th of May 1848: 14.000 Danish soldiers cross the Als Sound, and attack the German forces by Dybbol. The Germans are forced back to Graasten and Adsboel.
3rd of April 1849: After a seven month cease-fire, war breaks out again between Denmark and Germany.
5th of July 1849: The Danish garrison and General Rye´s corps succeeds in breaking out from Fredericia which is besieged by the Schleswig-Holstein army.
2nd of July 1850: After Russian pressure, Prussia and most of the German states end hostilities with Denmark. The Schleswig-Holstein states continue the war by themselves.
25th of July 1850: After a day of heavy fighting, the Danish Army defeats the Schleswig-Holstein Army at the Battle of Idstedt.
31st of December 1850: The last battle of the Three Year War takes place outside Mysunde.

1864 War of 1864

1st of February 1864: War breaks out between Denmark and Germany-Austria
5th of February 1864: The Danish army retreats from the Dannevirke positions, and pull northwards.
18th of April 1864: The Danish army is defeated by Dybbol by the Prussian Army.
9h of May 1864: A Danish naval squadron defeats a combined Austrian-Prussian squadron at the Battle off Helgoland. The same day a truce takes place between Denmark and Prussia-Austria.

1940-1945 The Occupation

9th of April 1940: Germany invades Denmark. After a few hours of fighting Denmark surrenders.
29th of August 1943: The German occupation forces take full control of Denmark. Fighting breaks out several places, and the Danish Navy is scuttled by it's crew.
2nd of October 1943: The Germans attempt to arrest the Danish Jews, but most of them escape to Sweden.
19th of September 1944: The Danish police force is interned by the Germans.
5th of May 1945: The German forces in Denmark surrender.

1864 Krigen i 1864

1. februar 1864: Krigen bryder ud imellem Danmark og Tyskland-Østrig.
2. februar 1864: Et preussisk angreb på Mysunde bliver slået tilbage.
5. februar 1864: Den danske hær trækker sig tilbage fra Dannevirke stillingen imod Nørrejylland og Dybbøl.
18. april 1864: Den dansk hær bliver besejret ved Dybbøl af den Preussiske hær.
9. maj 1864: En dansk eskadre besejre en kombineret østrigsk-preussisk eskadre i Kampen ved Helgoland. Samme dag bliver der indgået en våbenhvile imellem de stridende parter.
25. juni 1864: Krigen bryder ud påny.
29. juni 1864: Preusserne går i land på Als og besætter øen i løbet af nogle dage.
30. oktober 1864: Krigen afsluttes. Danmark mister Slesvig, Holsten og Lauenborg.

1945- Modern time

May 1994: A Danish tank force from the peacekeeping force in Bosnia defeats a Serbian force near Tuzla. As many as 100 serbians might have been wounded or killed without any looses for the Danes.
May 1999: Danish F-16 fighters participate in attacks against Serbia.

1945- Efterkrigs perioden

1. September 1982: - På grund af en teknisk fejl affyrer fregatten Peder Skram et Harpoon-missil, der slår ned ved Lumsås ved Sjællands Odde og ødelægger 3 sommerhuse.
Maj 1994: En dansk kampvognsstyrke fra det fredsbevarende korps i Bosnien, besejrer en serbisk styrke der har beskudt dem nær Tuzla. De serbiske tab var måske mere end 100 dræbte og sårede. Kampen ender uden tab for danskerne.
Maj 1999: Danske F-16 jagere deltagere i angreb imod Serbien.
2002: Danske specialstyrker deltager i krigen i Afghanistan på landjorden, imens danske F-16 jagere flyver missioner over landet.
4. februar 2003: Danske F-16 jagere kaster for første gang bomber over Afghanistan.

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