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(500) First Danes arrive from Sweden
(690) English missionaries enter Denmark
(700) King Ongendus rules Denmark
(800) King Godfred and forces attack the Franks
(810) King Godfred is murdered
(826) Harald Klak converts Denmark to Christianity
(827) Horik I, son of Godfred, rules Denmark
(831) Viking forces invade Ireland
(832-842) Viking raids continue in western Europe
(865) Danes invade East Anglia
(874) Iceland settled by Vikings
(885) Vikings raid Paris, France
(910) Harald I (Bluetooth) son of Gorm the Old conquers all of Denmark
(1013) Svend Forkbeard (Svend I) conquers England
(1016) King Canute defeats the English
(1028) King Canute is declared rules of Denmark, England and Norway
(1035) King Canute dies
(1060) Svend II forms Danish church
(1157) Valdemar I crowned King of Denmark
(1169) King Canute VI conquers Arkona
(1219) Valdemar II conquers Estonia
(1241) Valdemar II dies, kingdom dissolves
(1340) Valdemar IV crowned King of Denmark
(1350) Plague ravished Denmark and Sweden
(1361) Hanseatic league forces defeat Valdemar IV
(1375) Valdemar IV dies, Oluf assumes throne
(1388) Margrete crowned Queen of Denmark and Norway, and later Sweden
(1397) The Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden and Norway
(1445) Copenhagen declared capital city
(1521) Danish King Christian II deposed
(1536) King Christian III rules Denmark
(1536) Denmark adopts Lutheranism as state religion
(1563) Denmark and Sweden seven-year war begins
(1611) Sweden defeats Denmark in Kalmar War
(1626) Danish army defeated in Thirty Years' War
(1642) Sweden invades, Denmark loses land
(1657) Frederick III declares war on Sweden, Danish army is crushed
(1699) Frederik IV crowned King of Denmark
(1729) Greenland becomes Danish province
(1807) Britain attacks, steals Danish fleet
(1814) Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden
(1849) Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
(1914) Declares neutrality during World War I
(1930's) Welfare state established
(1940) Germany invades Denmark
(1943) Danish Jews escape to Sweden
(1945) Germany surrenders, Iceland gains its independence from Denmark
(1948) Faeroe Islands granted self-government
(1949) Denmark joins NATO
(1952) Denmark forms Nordic Council
(1972) King Frederick IX dies, his daughter, Margrethe II, is crowned queen
(1973) Denmark joins the EU
(1979) Greenland granted home rule
(1982) Poul Schlueter elected Prime Minister
(1985) Nuclear power plants approved
(1992) Danish voters reject Maastricht Treaty
(1993) Schlueter resigns during scandal, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen appointed Prime Minister
(1993) Denmark approves Maastricht - with options
(1994) Rasmussen elected Prime Minister
(1998) Rasmussen re-elected Prime Minister
(2000) Danes reject EURO as their currency
(2000) Oresund Bridge opens
(2001) Anders Fogh Rasmussen elected Prime Minister
(2005) Anders Fogh Rasmussen re-elected
(2006) Prophet Muhammad cartoons published by Danish newspaper; international Muslim outrage follows
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