965 Cristianización
Jelling stone
Harald Bluetooth proclaims the Christianisation of the Danes: the kingdom’s birth certificate.
Kingdom of Denmark
Europe's oldest still-reigning monarchy, Denmark converted its Viking power into a model of consensual society.
The Jelling stone, carved around 965, proclaims that Harald “made the Danes Christian”: the country's written birth certificate. The Lutheran Reformation of 1536 created a state Church that would fund literacy; in the nineteenth century Kierkegaard refounded there the Christian thought of existence.
From the eighth to the eleventh century the Danes shaped northern Europe: raids, trading posts, then a North Sea empire under Cnut the Great, who ruled Denmark, England and Norway simultaneously.
The Kalmar Union (1397) briefly gathered all Scandinavia under a Danish sceptre. The Reformation of 1536 and absolutism from 1660 forged a centralised, literate state. The defeats of 1864 against Prussia reduced the kingdom to a small country that chose to intensify its agriculture and cooperatives.
In the twentieth century Denmark built a universalist welfare state. It joined the Communities in 1973 alongside the United Kingdom and Ireland, but kept opt-outs: it has not adopted the euro. Greenland, a member through Denmark, left the Communities in 1985.
965 Cristianización
Harald Bluetooth proclaims the Christianisation of the Danes: the kingdom’s birth certificate.
1016 Edad Media
The Danish king rules England, Norway and Denmark: a North Sea empire.
1397 Edad Media
The three Scandinavian kingdoms are united under a single crown for more than a century.
1536 Renacimiento y Reformas
The Church becomes a state Church; universal religious instruction prepares national literacy.
1849 Edad Moderna
Absolutism ends; Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1943 Época contemporánea
In a few nights, more than 7,000 Jews are evacuated to neutral Sweden.
1949 Construcción europea participó
Ten states found in London the first European political organisation, matrix of the Convention on Human Rights.
1973 Construcción europea
The first Nordic member, Denmark enters alongside the United Kingdom and Ireland.
1973 Construcción europea participó
Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom join the Communities, which grow from six to nine.
1992 Construcción europea participó
The European Union is created, with European citizenship and the timetable for the single currency.
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