History of Denmark

The Danish history of 1660-1814 is signified by the two events, important for its  further development. In 1660 Denmark has finally  lost the Scone lands after the Swedish war. Meanwhile Bornholm managed to resist and was again in the Danish power. The establishment of the absolute monarchy in 1661 became a great loss.

The Danish history of 1536-1660  is signified by the two events, important for its  further development. The tide of Reformation, caused by the intronizing of Christian III, the successor of Frederick I, went in 1536, and afterwards the official religion changed.

The liberal party "Left" (Venstre; political leader - Knud Kristensen) who had authority in October 1945, have been replaced by Social Democrats (prime minister - Hans Hedtoft) in 1947—1950.

It is generally believed that the introduction of Germanic troops on the territory of Denmark in 1940 took place without any serious obstacles to the Danish side. Indeed, the German invasion of the country occurred rapidly and by the end of April 9 Denmark was under the complete control of the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Go into the war with Germany, just as it did at the same time neighboring Norway, Denmark did not. However, in reality, during the first hours of the invasion of Germanic troops met fierce resistance units of the Danish army in southern Jutland and in several other places.

Russian revolutionary Lenin didn’t make much of an impression on Copenhageners, but the seed for many of his agricultural programmes was planted here. Lenin’s first visit to Copenhagen was in 1907 to attend the meeting of the Russian Socialist Economist Worker’s Party, which had been banned in their home country. Lenin’s second visit to Denmark was in September 1910.

Demonstrations demanding an eight-hour working day and strikes against the hight cost of basic products, fall salaries and a wave of unemployment accompany history of Denmark between 1918-1920, i.e. at the beginning of the World Wars.

There was a new Folketing election in April 1901. The close election contest has resulted in a complete ministry defeat. The conservative have got only 8 mandats, the moderate liberals have got 15, “the wild” – 2; with these 23 or 25 dubious supporters the government had to oppose the left, acting in rather close coordination and consisting from that moment of 75 radicals and 14 social-democrats. The social-democrats got 43.000 votes that election.

The folketing (the lower house of danish rigsdag)election  in 1892 became a thiumph of the  reactionary ministry of Estrup. From the 210.000 of vioces the conservative party got 73.000 and thereby 31 mandates in the Folketing. “The moderate”, who supported the ministry, got 60.000 voices and 43 mandats. Speaking about the opposition patries, the radicals or “the left party of reformation”, how they are called in Denmark, got 47.000 voices and 26 mandates, and the social-democrates – 20.000 voices and 2 mandates.

Some days after king Christian X’ s death his successor Frederick VII announced a project of a constitution in a grand manner. It was  the 28 January 1848. The project supposed a general parliament for all areas of Denmark, that had to be gathered in turn in the kingdom and in the duchies. It was decided to call an assembly, halfly nominated by the king, halfly elected by the seim, to discuss the project. All that caused a great disapprobation and discontent in the country. The demand for a new constitution was categorically made: it had to be common for the whole Denmark up to Eider, isolating Holstein as a quite independent area.

The German element in Denmark even improved with annexation of Lauenburg. Frederick VI tried to attach dominating importance to the danish language, spoken by the quantitatively prevailing mass of the peasant population in Schleswig, but in didn’t work. It just caused irritation among the rich german noblemen, who were already against him for his peasant relationships reform.

The Danish history of 1397-1536 is signified by the two events, important for its further development. In the beginning of the period the three Norvegian kings united with the Danish monarch to Calmar union. The Reformation in Germany, fallen on the end of the period, entailed people’s disagreement with existence of a single king, which caused a civil war.

Danish archaeologists try to uncover the history of a strong fire, which in the middle of 13 th century devastated the monastery "Sortebrødrestræde" on Fyn island.