In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

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The Royal Danish Navy operates a dog sled patrol called Sirius-patruljen, based in Daneborg.

* HDMS Galathea, formerly HMS Leith ( U36 ), a survey ship of the Royal Danish Navy

In addition, the German Navy and the Royal Danish Navy are in cooperation in the " Ark Project ".

While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.

Wilhelm became Grand Admiral of the German Navy, but also was awarded honorific titles from all over Europe, becoming admiral in the British, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Greek navies.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

The city was founded by Danish navigator Vitus Bering in the service of the Russian Navy.

He had worked for the Royal Danish Navy and the Royal Dutch dockyards.

Because of this the Royal Norwegian Navy shares its history from 1509 to 1814 with the Royal Danish Navy.

As Denmark needed a naval base in the central Baltic Sea, a fort was built on Christiansø and Frederiksø in 1684 which served as an outpost for the Danish Navy until 1855.

*** HDMS Dannebrog ( ironclad ): A Royal Danish Navy ironclad frigate.

On 3 February 1808 Palmerston spoke in support of confidentiality in the working of diplomacy and the bombardment of Copenhagen and the capture and destruction of the Danish navy by the Royal Navy in the Battle of Copenhagen.

* Danish A class submarine, a class of six built for the Royal Danish Navy, 1911 – 1914

The Danish attacks had been particularly damaging to the monasteries, and though Alfred founded monasteries at Athelney and Shaftesbury, the first new monastic houses in Wessex since the beginning of the eighth century, and enticed foreign monks to England, monasticism did not revive significantly during his reign.

The Danish raids had also a devastating impact on learning in England.

During the Danish civil war, Denmark had been open to coastal raids by the Wends.

The pirates had raided the Danish coasts during the civil war of Sweyn III, Canute V, and Valdemar, to the point where at the accession of Valdemar one-third of Denmark lay wasted and depopulated.

But the unexpected fall of Arkona had terrified the garrison, which surrendered unconditionally at the first appearance of the Danish ships.

The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.

In less than four hours Marlborough's Dutch, English, and Danish forces had overwhelmed Villeroi's and Max Emanuel's Franco-Spanish-Bavarian army.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

Villeroi still believed ( on 22 May ) the Allies were a full day ’ s march away when in fact they had camped near Corswaren waiting for the Danish squadrons to catch up ; for his part, Marlborough deemed Villeroi still at Jodoigne when in reality he was now approaching the plateau of Mont St. André with the intention of pitching camp near Ramillies ( see map at right ).

Seeing that Schultz and Spaar were faltering, Marlborough now ordered Orkney ’ s second-line British and Danish battalions ( who had not been used in the assault on Offus and Autre-Eglise ) to move south towards Ramillies.

Patch's great grandfather, Hans Truval Christsen, a Danish immigrant from Copenhagen and his son Frederick Christsen had an employment policy of employing staff from the Salvation Army faith in the rum bottling process as they were less likely to be tempted to sample the spirit.

In 1842, Johannes Theodor Reinhardt proposed that Dodos were ground pigeons, based on studies of a Dodo skull he had discovered in the royal Danish collection at Copenhagen.

Moreover, it is unlikely that the pope would send such a banner, given the fact that they already had one, namely the banner of the Knights Hospitaller ( Danish: " Johanitterne ").

Furthermore he claims that Bishop Theoderich, already co-initiator of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Livonia, had the idea of starting a similar order in Estonia ; and that he was the original instigator of the inquiry from Bishop Albert of Buxhoeveden to King Valdemar II in 1218, that set the whole Danish participation in the Baltic crusades in motion.

Until 1948 the Faroes had the official status of a Danish amt ( county ).

The KGH had long opposed urbanization of the Kalaallit Greenlanders, but during the 1950s and 1960s the Danish government introduced an urbanization and modernization program aimed at consolidating existing settlements.

Alfred the Great's victory at Edington in 878 stemmed the Danish attack ; however, by then Northumbria had devolved into Bernicia and a Viking kingdom, Mercia had been split down the middle, and East Anglia ceased to exist as an Anglo-Saxon polity.

A Danish town in England often had, as it principal officers, twelve hereditary ‘ law men .’ The Danes introduced the habit of making committees among the free men in court, which perhaps made England favorable ground for the future growth of the jury system out of a Frankish custom later introduced by the Normans .”

The American Krag-Jørgensen also has only a single locking lug, whereas the Norwegian and Danish versions effectively had two lugs.

The Norwegian snekkjas, designed for deep fjords and Atlantic weather, typically had more draught than the Danish model designed for low coasts and beaches.

The Peace Party, however, had its own armed forces – scattered bands of household troops ( Hofleute ) under diverse command, which only united in action in 1565 ( Battle of Pärnu, 1565 and Siege of Reval, 1565 ), in 1570 – 1571 ( Siege of Reval, 1570-1571 ; 30 weeks ), and in 1574 – 1576 ( first on Sweden ’ s side, then came the sale of Wiek to the Danish Crown, and the loss of the territory to Tsardom of Russia ).

The Swedish, Danish, Italian and Mexican Mads were each published on three separate occasions ; Norway has had four runs cancelled.

Bjørn Lomborg (; born 6 January 1965 ) is a Danish author, academic, and environmental writer.

According to 2012 figures from Statistics Denmark, 89. 6 % of Denmark ’ s population of over 5, 580, 516 was of Danish descent.

The Danish Axe ( also Broad Axe, Dane-axe ) is a weapon with a heavy crescent-shaped head mounted on a haft 4 ft. to 6 ft. ( 1. 2-1. 8 m .) in length.

* January 6 – Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician ( b. 1839 )

* January 6 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman ( d. 1673 )

* January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist ( d. 1656 )

* July 6 – The Danish Army beats the Prussian army at Fredericia, Jutland, thereby putting an end to the Prussian / Danish War until 1864.

Shortly after 6 May a German privateer who had assumed the name " Baron von Hompesch " plundered the defenseless city and seized the property of the Danish Crown Monopoly.

Thomas Fincke ( 6 January 1561 – 24 April 1656 ) was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years.

Introducing this correction effectively cancels out the " Bergsland & Vogt " argument, since a thorough analysis of the Riksmal data shows that its basic wordlist includes about 15 – 16 borrowings from other Germanic languages ( mostly Danish ) – exclusion of these elements from the calculations brings the rate down to the expected rate of 5 – 6 " native " replacements per millennium ;

22. 5 % were of German, 13. 4 % English, 12. 1 % American, 9. 5 % Irish, 6. 0 % Dutch and 5. 7 % Danish ancestry according to Census 2000.

27. 2 % were of English, 20. 0 % Welsh, 12. 0 % American, 7. 1 % German and 6. 8 % Danish ancestry according to Census 2000.

30. 6 % were of English, 10. 7 % German, 10. 2 % American and 5. 3 % Danish ancestry according to Census 2000.

34. 6 % were of English, 15. 2 % American, 9. 1 % Danish and 8. 8 % German ancestry according to Census 2000.

23. 6 % were of English, 12. 5 % American, 8. 9 % German and 5. 1 % Danish ancestry according to Census 2000.

28. 6 % were of English, 16. 1 % American, 9. 4 % German, 7. 1 % Danish, 6. 2 % Swiss and 5. 5 % Swedish ancestry according to Census 2000.

* Symphony No. 6: Thomas Jensen – 1952 ( Tono, a Danish label )

These recordings are all with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and all have been re-released on CD by Dutton Records ( GB ), except No. 6 which was transferred to CD by Denmark's DANACORD Records.

72. 3 % were of German, 10. 6 % Norwegian, 6. 4 % Czech and 6. 4 % Danish ancestry according to Census 2000.

68. 2 % were of Finnish, 12. 1 % Danish and 10. 6 % Swedish ancestry according to Census 2000.