In 1781, by the help of some friends, eleven year old Thorvaldsen was admitted to Copenhagen's Royal Danish Academy of Art ( Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi ) first as draftsman, and from 1786 at the modeling school.

Bruhn began training with the Royal Danish Ballet when he was nine years old, and made his unofficial début on the stage of Copenhagen's Royal Opera House in 1946, dancing the role of Adonis in Harald Lander's ballet Thorvaldsen.

Strøget was created in November 1962 when cars were beginning to dominate Copenhagen's old central streets.

It was built by Queen Sophie Amalie, consort to Frederick III on part of the land which King Christian IV had acquired outside of Copenhagen's old walled city, now known as the Indre By district, in the early 17th century.

After the Reformation the skull was taken to the exhibition rooms of king Frederik III in Copenhagen, where it was on exhibit along with the petrified embryo a woman had carried inside her for 28 years, as well as other monstrosities the king had collected — until it was transferred to Copenhagen's National museum.

By September 1889, only three years after graduating from the conservatory, Nielsen had progressed well enough on the violin to gain a position with the second violins in the prestigious Royal Danish Orchestra which played at Copenhagen's Royal Theater.

Marstrand studied at Copenhagen's Metropolitan School ( Metropolitanskolen ), but had little interest in books, and left around 16 years of age.

Although his interests had a firm hold in genre themes-depiction of the daily life he observed around him in Copenhagen's streets, especially middle class society-he would soon reach for the pinnacle of Academic acceptability: the history painting.

She flew back to Denmark, where tests at Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet discovered she had contracted a number of opportunistic infections, such as Staphylococcus aureus ( staph infection ), candidiasis ( yeast infection ), and Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia ( PCP, a fungal infection of the lungs formerly known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia ).

His farther, Abraham Marcus, had been born in Friedberg near Frankfurt am Main in 1783 but moved to Denmark where he opened a small tobacco business in Copenhagen's Hotel D ' Angleterre in 1826.

Rigshospitalet's mission is to be Denmark's leading hospital for patients needing highly specialized treatment .. Rigshospitalet's main specialist role has been enhanced in recent years by the decision that it should serve as the host institution for many of Copenhagen's speciality departments.

Following services in Copenhagen's Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Church, the Empress was interred at Roskilde Cathedral.

He was organist at Copenhagen's St. Stephens church from 1917 – 1932 and at the Holmen church in 1947.

A replica of Copenhagen's Round Tower or Rundetårn in the scale 1: 3 was finished in 1991 and can be seen in the town center.

Having begun his art education at the age of nine under private tutelage, he was enrolled in Copenhagen's Technical Institute the following year.

First launched in 1995, Copenhagen's ByCylken program was the first large-scale urban bike share program to feature specially designed bikes with parts that could not be used on other bikes.

Invited in Denmark for the Copenhagen's International Races which he brilliantly won too, Panario was congratuled by the King Christian X who called him " the first skipper of Europe.

It was then, when the Danish explorer Lauge Koch set foot on the island, that it received its name, after the coffee club in Copenhagen's museum of mineralogy.

Restoration work was completed at the beginning of Copenhagen's year as European Capital of Culture in 1996.

She was Copenhagen's first female Lord Mayor.

In 1250 the castle was extended with two side towers to get the appearance that is now depicted on Copenhagen's Coat of Arms.

The fort was built in the years 1910 – 1914 as part of Copenhagen's sea-fortifications.

Copenhagen's 2006 – 07 UEFA Champions League campaign, Wendt played regularly as a left back, and in the team's 3 – 1 win against Celtic, he alongside fellow Copenhagen defender Michael Gravgaard was chosen for the Eurosport " Team of the Round ".

In 1906, the community was linked to the capital by the railway between Copenhagen and Slangerup: in 1977, this became the Hareskovbanen radial of Copenhagen's S-train system.

It was constructed 1890 – 94 as a part of Copenhagen's sea-fortifications, partly from material excavated from Frihavnen.

Strategically set on Copenhagen's waterfront, it has presented operas and musicals to full houses ever since its opening.

After eight years in Italy he finally returned to Denmark, staying briefly in Munich where he studied the technique of fresco painting, in anticipation of a commission, along with Georg Hilker, to decorate the University of Copenhagen's vestibule on Frue Plads.

He has lectured and performed at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts ( Rapture Series, 1995 ); Copenhagen's International Seminar on BODY: Ritual-Manipulation ( 1995 ) and Lisbon, Portugal's Festival Atlantico ( 1997 ).

He is buried in Copenhagen's Vestre Kirkegård Cemetery ( Western Churchyard Cemetery ).

The west end of Strøget at The City Hall Square is a short walking distance from Tivoli Gardens and Copenhagen's Central Train Station.

DIKU is located at Universitetsparken in Copenhagen, which is part of the University of Copenhagen's North Campus.

Copenhagen's economy blossomed as a result of the hugely prosperous herring fishery trade, which provided large parts of Roman Catholic Europe with salted herring for Lent.

He is buried in Copenhagen's Assistens Cemetery.

His museum is the nucleus of the University of Copenhagen's Zoological Museum.

In December 1531 a mob stormed the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, encouraged by Copenhagen's fiery mayor, Ambrosius Bogbinder.

It bears a similar cultural significance as Copenhagen's Little Mermaid.

In 1685 after her release from 21 years imprisonment for high treason from the Blue Tower ( Blåtårn ) in Copenhagen's Castle, she spent her final years in the cloister, and is buried in a crypt at the church.

* April 3-Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino.

In March 2008, after a year-long campaign by the group, Copenhagen's Culture and Leisure Committee voted to allow topless bathing in its swimming pools.

Trains run typically every fifteen minutes to most destinations, with lines converging in the central areas to provide a metro-style frequency of five minutes or less, operating similarly to systems such as Copenhagen's S-tog.

Strøget, Copenhagen's pedestrian zone.

CityBikes of Helsinki, Finland used a similar pay-through-advertising scheme adopted by Copenhagen's ByCylken, with distinctive yellow-green bicycles available at over 26 stands for a € 2 deposit, refundable at any other stand.