This perceived slight, known as the Telegram Crisis, greatly outraged Hitler and he immediately recalled his ambassador from Copenhagen and expelled the Danish ambassador from Germany.

The first event in this connection was a visit by the Danish ambassador to the United States, Friis Arne Petersen, on 11 July 2010.

He was accompanied by the Danish ambassador, Peter Taksoe-Jensen, and Torsten Jansen, the cultural counselor at the Danish Embassy in Washington.

In early November, the President attended a traditional informal lunch with all ambassadors to Iceland, held by the senior Danish ambassador.

On 3 December 1891 Albert Victor, to her " great surprise " proposed to Mary at Luton Hoo, the country residence of the Danish ambassador to Britain.

Friedrich von Hagedorn ( 23 April 1708 – 28 October 1754 ), German poet, was born at Hamburg, where his father, a man of scientific and literary taste, was Danish ambassador.

Returning to Hamburg in 1729, he obtained the appointment of unpaid private secretary to the Danish ambassador in London, where he lived till 1731.

* Johann Elias Schlegel becomes secretary to an ambassador at the Danish court.

The Danish ambassador to Germany, Herluf Zahle, issued a similar warning which was also ignored.

Regarding Greenland, on 9 April 1941, the Danish envoy ( ambassador ) to the United States, Henrik Kauffmann, signed a treaty with the U. S., authorising it to defend Greenland and construct military stations there.

He then returned to his former posting in Damascus as the Danish ambassador to Syria.

In 2006 he was sent on his latest posting ; as the Danish ambassador to Algeria.

The article claimed that Brian Herman, Canada ’ s only diplomat in Denmark ( ambassador Alfonso Gagliano having been recently recalled as a result of an unrelated Canadian scandal ), was called before the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to comment about his country's intentions in the dispute, which had, according to the article, recently been inflamed by Danish sailors occupying Hans Island.

Greenland natives have used the island for centuries " and which linked to a Danish foreign affairs webpage that stated that Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs had sent a note to Canada's ambassador to Denmark on July 25, 2005 expressing Denmark's regret that " the Canadian Minister of National Defence had paid a visit to Hans Island without prior notification of the Danish Government.

" Poul Erik Dam Kristensen, Denmark's ambassador to Canada, told the press that the paid advertisement was not a Danish government initiative and whoever placed it was acting alone.

Among these were Danish ambassador to the U. S. Henrik Kauffmann who had conducted his own foreign policy throughout the war and refused to follow orders from Copenhagen as long as Denmark remained occupied by a foreign power.

In 1789 he went as secretary of legation to Berlin, where his maternal uncle, Count Leopold Friedrich zu Stolberg, was Danish ambassador.

After his retirement he remained without office until his appointment in 1811 as Danish ambassador at Vienna.

In 1817 he was appointed Danish ambassador at Berlin, his brother Joachim going at the same time to Vienna.

The airports of Copenhagen and Billund provide a variety of domestic and international connections while ferries provide services to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Germany, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom as well as routes to the Danish islands.

Danish is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish crown territories of the Faroe Islands ( where it is also an official language after Faroese ) and Greenland ( where, however, the only official language since 2009 is Kalaallisut ), as well as the former crown holding of Iceland.

Danish was an official language in Iceland until 1944 but is today still widely used and is a mandatory subject in school.

* 1918 – The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.

On the Danish flag, the cross design, which represents Christianity, was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries ; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney.

The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).

* The Danish government re-establishes the Althing in Iceland as an advisory body.

Iceland and the Faroe Islands, as parts of Norway, pass under the Danish crown.

* The trade monopoly with Iceland is transferred to the Danish crown.

* The trade with Iceland is opened to all Danish and Norwegian traders.

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.

Halldór Laxness, the Icelandic author, was present at the trial and described it in detail in his travelogue from USSR in 1937 – 8, Gerska aefintyrid ( A Russian Adventure ), published in Iceland in 1938 and in a Danish translation in 1939.

In 1602 Iceland was forbidden to trade with countries other than Denmark, by order of the Danish government, which at this time pursued mercantilist policies.

Hannes Hafstein, first Prime Minister of Iceland and the first Icelander to be appointed to the Cabinets of Denmark | Danish Cabinet as the Minister for Iceland

The Act of Union, a December 1, 1918, agreement with Denmark, recognized Iceland as a fully sovereign state — the Kingdom of Iceland-joined with Denmark in a personal union with the Danish king.

In 1918 Iceland regained sovereignty as a separate kingdom under the Danish king.

Other pioneers include Danish physician Peter Anton Schleisner, who in 1849 related his work on the prevention of the epidemic of neonatal tetanus on the Vestmanna Islands in Iceland.

The Danish krone was introduced to Iceland in 1874, replacing the earlier Danish currency, the rigsdaler.

In medieval times, speakers of all the Scandinavian languages could understand one another to a significant degree and it was often referred to as a single language, called the " Danish tongue " until the 13th century by some in Sweden and Iceland.

* Danish – Icelandic Act of Union, a 1918 union granting independence to Iceland

The German occupation of Denmark after May 1940, however, resulted in Iceland's autonomy, and Sveinn was elected Regent of Iceland three times during 1941 – 43, assuming all the prerogatives in Icelandic affairs previously held by the Danish king.

* Lasse Rimmer ( born 1972 ), a Danish entertainer

Danish Army Sig P210 Pistol, Photograph 5th February 2004, by Lasse Jensen.

Danish Army Sig P210 Pistol, Photograph 5th February 2004, by Lasse Jensen.