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Denmark Chronology

Ancient Denmark
2400 BC-1500 BC	In the period of the Late Danish Neolithic amber pendants were shaped as animals by the Ertebolle Culture.
400-500 AD	The Jutes tribe settled in Northern Denmark.
870	Ethelred of Wessex beat a Danish invasion.
959-987	Harald Bluetooth, or Blatand, king of Denmark, unified Denmark and Christianised the people.
979-1016	Aethelred II the Unready was a ruler of England when Scandinavians invaded and forced him to buy peace with the first English tax, called the Danegeld.
1016	The Saxons were defeated by the Danes in the battle of Assandun.

Medieval Denmark
1018-1035	King Canute the Great of Denmark ruled over England, Norway and Denmark.
1200-1300	The Danes built a castle at Narva, Estonia.
1380	Denmark conquered Iceland.
1397	Denmark, Sweden and Norway were united.
1494	Johan Friis, a chancellor of Denmark who helped Lutheranism be formed, was born.
1546	Tycho Brahe, a great astronomer, was born in Knudstrup, Denmark.
1562	The beginning of the First Northern war, which Denmark declared on Sweden. It ended with the treaty of Stettin in 1570.
1587	Johannes Fabricius, the astronomer who discovered sunspots, was born.
1626	Danish intervention in the European wars was ended by the Catholic League in Germany.
1644	Olaus Rimer, the first to measure accurately the speed of light, was born.
1684	Ludvig Baron Holberg, patron of Danish and Norwegian literature, was born.

18th -19th Century
1843	The Tivoli Gardens were opened in Copenhagen.
1847	Beer production in Denmark was started by Carlsberg.
1865	C.J. Thomsen, the archaeologist who named the Stone, Iron and Bronze Ages, was born.
1885	Nils Bohr, winner of a Noble Prize and a co-founder of the atom bomb, was born.
1728	Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer and seaman, found the Bering Strait, connecting Asia and North America. In the following years he participated in many expeditions, including the one in which Alaska was discovered.
1748	The Danish Royal Theatre was founded.
1775	The opening of the Danish Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory.
1777	The founder of electromagnetism, Hans Christian Oersted, was born.
1790s	Denmark was the first country to abolish slavery.
1805	Hans Christian Andersen was born.
1813	The founder of Existentialism in philosophy, Soren Kierkegaard, was born.
1830	Danish Ballet was founded by August Bournoville.

20th Century
1902	For the first time in world history, fingerprinting was used to identify criminals.
1909	The word “gene” was made up by the Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen.
1913	In the port in Copenhagen the statue of the Little Mermaid was installed.
1932	Ole Kirk Christiansen founded the LEGO Group, the famous constructions for children.
1940	The Nazi army invaded Denmark and killed most of its police forces.
1943	Denmark proclaimed a strike against the Nazis. Danish Jews were saved from deportation.
1945	Denmark was liberated from Nazi control.
1971	A Woodstock-inspired Roskilde rock festival was first held.
1973	Denmark joined the European Union.
1989	Marriage between homosexuals is made legal.
1997	Denmark is said to be the least corrupt country in the world.
1999	The new Royal Library in Copenhagen was opened.

Present Day Denmark
2002	13 percent of Danish electricity is derived from the wind power, the country plans for a 50 percent by 2030.
2004	Bjorn Lomborg was named the world's most influential environmentalist by Time magazine.
2004 May 14	Australian Mary Donaldson married Danish Crown Prince Frederick.
2006	The scandal with the caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad occurred.
2006	Professor Eugene Polzik reported a breakthrough in teleportation.