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Events relating to scandinavia
Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour
The Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild lends 20 million francs to the Danish government
In the Treaty of Hamina (or Fredrikshamn), Sweden cedes Finland to Russia as an autonomous grand duchy
A French marshal, Jean Bernadotte, is offered the position of crown prince and heir to the Swedish throne
Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden, in the Treaty of Kiel, following Bernadotte's successful Danish campaign
The Göta canal is completed, enabling ships to cross Scandinavia from the North Sea to the Baltic
With his emphasis on the subjective experience of human Existenz, the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard plants the seed of existentialism
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, making the volatile explosive nitroglycerine safer by combining it with kieselguhr
Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt has its premiere in Oslo, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg
Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House signals a new direction in drama in its frank treatment of tensions within a marriage
Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany)
Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen sails into the Arctic in the purpose-built Fram, beginning a three-year expedition to reach the North Pole
Jean Sibelius's 'symphonic legend' The Swan of Tuonela has its premiere in Helsinki
Jean Sibelius's Finlandia stirs national instincts in Helsinki
Sibelius writes Valse Triste as incidental music to a play, Kuolema, by his brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt
Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen wins the competition to build Helsinki's railway station
More than 360,000 Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden, with only 184 against
Swedish playwright August Strindberg publishes The Ghost Sonata, which has its first performance in Stockholm the following year
Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown
The first sea-going diesel-powered ship, the Selandia, is constructed and launched in Denmark
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr uses quantum theory as a key to understanding the structure of the atom
18-year-old Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad makes her debut in Oslo
A plebiscite in Schleswig establishes the border between Denmark and Germany
Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood
To explain the irregular movement of stars, Swedish astronomer Bertil Lindblad proposes the theory that our galaxy rotates
