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| 1660 |
| | | Sweden wins the province of Skåne from Denmark, thus acquiring an unbroken stretch of Baltic coastline from Göteborg to Riga | |
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| 1665 |
| | | A new Danish constitution (the Kongeloven or King's Law) makes the monarchy hereditary and grants the king absolute power | |
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| 1676 |
| | | Ole Roemer, a Danish astronomer working with Cassini in Paris, calculates the speed of light with an error of only 25% | |
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| 1700 |
| | | Poland, Russia and Denmark attack Sweden, beginning the 21-year Northern War | |
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| 1728 |
| | | The Danish explorer Vitus Bering sails into Arctic seas through the strait between Asia and America known now by his name | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild lends 20 million francs to the Danish government | |
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| 1814 |
| | | Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden, in the Treaty of Kiel, following Bernadotte's successful Danish campaign | |
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| c. 1845 |
| | | With his emphasis on the subjective experience of human Existenz, the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard plants the seed of existentialism | |
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| 1850 |
| | | The British government buys the Danish fortresses on the Gold Coast, including Christiansborg castle in Accra | |
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