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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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| 1912 |
| | | Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The first sea-going diesel-powered ship, the Selandia, is constructed and launched in Denmark | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Danish physicist Niels Bohr uses quantum theory as a key to understanding the structure of the atom | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A plebiscite in Schleswig establishes the border between Denmark and Germany | |
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| 1939 September 19 |
| | | Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark jointly declare their neutrality | |
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