Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 ( it eventually was accomplished in 1917 ).

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group, while the old Norwegian dialects before the influence of Danish and Bokmål is classified as a West Norse language together with Faroese and Icelandic.

A change that separated Old East Norse ( Runic Swedish / Danish ) from Old West Norse was the change of the diphthong æi ( Old West Norse ei ) to the monophthong e, as in stæin to sten.

Similarly, the Norwegian language is classified as a descendant of West Norse, while the written language used by the vast majority in Norway is derived from an older variant of standard Danish.

Standard Danish has two genders and the definite form of nouns is formed by the use of suffixes, while Western Jutlandic has only one gender and the definite form of nouns uses an article before the noun itself, in the same fashion as West Germanic languages.

The last three books ( 14-16 ), describe Danish conquests on the south shore of the Baltic Sea and wars against Slavic peoples ( the Northern Crusades ), are very valuable for the history of West Slavic tribes ( Polabian Slavs, Pomeranians ) and Slavic paganism.

NADGE / AEGIS were complemented, in West Germany by the German Air Defence Ground Environment ( GEADGE ), an updated radar network adding southern West Germany to the European system, and Coastal Radar Integration System ( CRIS ), adding data links from Danish coastal radars.

* 1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies ( now U. S. Virgin Islands ) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.

In all, he brought about more than 50 treaties, including the settlement of the Samoan dispute, as a result of which the United States secured Tutuila, with a harbor in the Pacific ; a definitive Alaskan boundary treaty in 1903 ; the negotiation of reciprocity treaties with Argentina, France, Germany, Cuba, and the British West Indies ; the negotiation of new treaties with Spain ; and the negotiation of a treaty with Denmark for the cession of the Danish West India Islands.

Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse ; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo “ body-raiment ” = “ body ” ( Heliand 3453 b ), a compound which, in any case, is normal in West Germanic and North Germanic prose ( Old English līchama, Old High German lîchamo, lîchinamo, Dutch lichaam, Old Icelandic líkamr, líkami, Old Swedish līkhamber, Swedish lekamen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål legeme, Norwegian Nynorsk lekam ).

This meaning, of unknown origin, is common among West Germanic languages ( cf: Old Frisian kniucht, Dutch knecht, Danish knægt, Swedish knekt, Norwegian knekt, Middle High German kneht, all meaning " boy, youth, lad ", as well as German Knecht " servant, bondsman, vassal ").

* 1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $ 25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.

Together with Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian it belongs to the West Scandinavian group, separating it from the East Scandinavian group consisting of Swedish, Danish and Gutnish.

The modern descendants of the Old West Norse dialect are the West Scandinavian languages of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian and the extinct Norn language of the Orkney and the Shetland Islands ; the descendants of the Old East Norse dialect are the East Scandinavian languages of Danish and Swedish.

Most subject – verb – object languages place genitives after the noun, though there is a significant minority, including the postpositional SVO languages of West Africa, the Hmong – Mien languages, some Sino-Tibetan languages, and such European languages as Swedish, Danish, Lithuanian and Latvian, that have prenominal genitives ( as would be expected in a SOV language ).

Formerly the Danish West Indies, they were sold to the United States by Denmark in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

The Treaty of the Danish West Indies was signed in August 1916, with a Danish referendum held in December 1916 to confirm the decision.

The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 () is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

** The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $ 25 million.

* March 31 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands, after paying $ 25 million to Denmark.

The Danish West Indies ( Danish: Dansk Vestindien or De dansk-vestindiske øer ) or Danish Antilles were a Danish colony in the Caribbean, first under the united kingdoms of Denmark-Norway and later, after the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, Denmark alone.

The islands were sold to the United States in 1916 under the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies and were organized as the United States Virgin Islands in 1917.

The Danish West Indies covered a total area of and in the 1850s consisted of three islands: Sankt Thomas with ; Sankt Jan with ; and Sankt Croix of.

Dutch merchants in Copenhagen petitioned King Christian IV for permission to establish a West Indian trading company in 1622 but, by the time an eight-year monopoly on trade with the West Indies, Virginia, Brazil, and Guinea was granted on 25 January 1625, the failure of the Danish East India and Iceland Companies and the beginning of Danish involvement in the Thirty Years ' War dried up any interested capital.

It was not until Erik Smit's private 1652 expedition aboard the Fortuna proved successful that interest in the West Indies ' trade grew into consideration of a new Danish colony.

A 1905 gold 20 Franc coin of the Danish West Indies, depicting Christian IX of Denmark.

Meanwhile, over the period 1672 – 1733, the Danish gained control of the nearby islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.

The Danish West India Company settled on Saint Thomas in 1672, on Saint John in 1694, and purchased Saint Croix from France in 1733.

In May 1733, the French purported to sell the island to the Danish West India Company.

Christian's central domestic act was the introduction of the so-called adscription of 1733 ( in Danish, stavnsbånd ), a law that forced peasants to remain in their home regions, and by which the peasantry was subject to both the local nobility and the army.

King Christian VI commissioned architect Elias David Häusser to build the first Christiansborg Palace ( Danish, Christiansborg Slot ), and in 1733 work started on a magnificent baroque palace.

The Danish West Indies first settled St. Thomas in 1668 and St. John in 1718 and purchased St. Croix from the French in 1733.

It was first established on March 4, 1952, as Virgin Islands National Historic Site through the initiative of concerned local citizens, to preserve the historic structures and grounds within its boundaries, and to interpret the Danish economy and way of life, including colonial administration, military and naval establishment, international trade ( including slave trade ), religious diversity, architecture, trades and crime and punishment, between 1733 and 1917.

In 1733, the Danish West India Company purchased Saint Croix from the French and brought together Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, and Saint John as the Danish West Indies.

By 1910 new smaller Danish companies began joining the business, and besides making more films about the white slave trade, they contributed other new subjects.

The Danish government paid fifty dollars for every slave the plantation owners had owned and recognized that the slaves ' release had caused a financial loss for the owners.

Their languages predominated, so much so that the Danish government, in 1839, declared that slave children must attend school in the English language.

He also got to know a slave from the Danish colony in the West Indies.

Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by the Roman slave Spartacus ; the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish monarch Ongentheow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled ; the poet-prophet Ali bin Muhammad, who led imported east African slaves in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century ; Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against the British in Jamaica ; the Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a country ; Denmark Vesey in South Carolina, USA ; and Madison Washington during the Creole case in 19th century America.

* Danish West Indies, 1848 slave revolt lead to emancipation for all of the slaves in the Danish West Indies

Traditionally, the name Trelleborg has been explained as a fort built by slaves ( the Danish word for slave being træl ), but the word trel ( pl trelle ) is a more plausible explanation.

It was on this ship, a slave ship en route from Danish Guinea, on the second day at sea, that he witnessed a slave rebellion on the open sea, which almost cost him his life.

Fort Christiansborg became the base for Danish power in west Africa, and the centre for slave trade to the Danish West Indies.

Gróttasöngr is the work song of two young slave girls bought in Sweden by the Danish King Frodi.

The surname Dansby originates from a slave merchant of Danish descent who arrived in the new world as a serf working on a plantation in the Caribbean.

The Mino were rigorously trained, given uniforms, and equipped with Danish guns ( obtained via the slave trade ).