| 12000-9300 BC |
Late Ice Age. Immigration of the first hunters. |
| 9300-3900 BC |
Mesolithic Period. Hunting and fishing. |
| 3900-1700 BC |
Neolithic Period. Farming and animal husbandry. Dolmens and passage graves are built. |
| 1700-500 BC |
Bronze Age. |
| 500 BC-750 AD |
Iron Age. Rudimentary conurbations in the 8th century. |
| 866-67 |
The Vikings capture York. |
| C. 965 |
Harald I (Blue Tooth) introduces Christianity in Denmark. |
| 1157-1241 |
The Age of the Valdemars. Denmark gains supremacy over large parts of the southern Baltic areas. |
| 1241 |
Jyske Lov (The Jutlandic Law). |
| 1282 |
Erik V (Klipping) is the first Danish king to seal a coronation charter. |
| 1286 |
Erik V (Klipping) is murdered in Finderup Barn. |
| C. 1350-1400 |
Plague, the Black Death; many farms are deserted. |
| 1397-1523 |
The Kalmar Union with Norway and Sweden; Sweden breaks away for long periods. |
| 1479 |
The foundation of the University of Copenhagen. |
| 1520 |
The Massacre of Stockholm; Christian II executes more than 80 Swedish opponents. |
| 1534-36 |
The Count's Feud, civil war in Denmark. |
| 1536 |
The Reformation. Norway is formally incorporated into Denmark. |
| 1563-70 |
The Scandinavian Seven Years' War. |
| 1611-13 |
The Kalmar War between Denmark and Sweden. |
| 1625-29 |
Denmark's participation in the Thirty Years' War (the Kaiser War). |
| 1643-45 |
The Torstensson Feud. Parts of Denmark and Norway are ceded to Sweden. |
| 1657-60 |
The Karl Gustav Wars. Denmark cedes all provinces east of ¯resund (the Sound), with the exception of Bornholm, to Sweden. |
| 1660-61 |
Absolutism is introduced. |
| 1675-79 |
The Scania War between Denmark and Sweden. |
| 1683 |
Christian V's Danske Lov (Danish Law). |
| 1709-20 |
The Great Nordic War. |
| 1733 |
The introduction of adscription. |
| 1755-1807 |
The Palmy Days, Danish shipping and trade flourish. |
| 1788 |
The abolition of adscription. |
| 1801 |
The Battle of Copenhagen. |
| 1807-14 |
At war with England. Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden at the Peace of Kiel in 1814. |
| 1844 |
The first folk high school is established in R¿dding. |
| 1848 |
The abolition of absolutism. |
| 1848-51 |
The First Schleswig War. The Three Years' War. |
| 1849 |
The June Constitution, Denmark's first liberal constitution. |
| 1864 |
The Second Schleswig War; Denmark has to cede Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. |
| 1870-1901 |
Constitutional struggle between conservatives and liberals. |
| 1871 |
A socialist movement is founded. |
| 1901 |
Change of political system; introduction of Cabinet responsibility. |
| 1914-18 |
Denmark is neutral during World War I. |
| 1915 |
Constitutional reform, women and servants are enfranchised. |
| 1920 |
Reunion with South Jutland after a plebiscite. |
| 1940-45 |
Denmark occupied by Germany. |
| 1943 |
The August Uprising. Government by Civil Service Heads; Danmarks Frihedsråd (the Danish Freedom Council) is formed. |
| 1944 |
Iceland becomes an independent republic. |
| 1945 |
Denmark is a founder member of the UN. |
| 1949 |
Denmark joins NATO. |
| 1953 |
A new Constitution and a new Act of Succession, the Landsting (second chamber) is abolished and female succession is rendered possible. |
| 1973 |
Denmark is admitted to the EC and after a landslide election three new parties enter the Folketing (Parliament). |
| 1979 |
Greenland obtains Home Rule. |
| 1993 |
Denmark joins the EU. |
| 1998 |
Denmark adopts the Amsterdam Treaty. |
| 2000 |
Danish participation in the Single European Currency, the euro, is rejected by referendum |
