In conjunction with this agreement an army of Danish left the island and sailed to Ghent.

* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.

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

Sweeping forwards, virtually without resistance, the 21 Danish squadrons reformed behind the French around the area of the Tomb of Ottomond, facing north across the plateau of Mont St André towards the exposed flank of Villeroi ’ s army.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 71, having only Danish nationality and being unable to join the army, he moved his family to Norwood, then a village on the edge of London.

The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses were amongst the works that later spread to the countries of Scandinavia, where, in the Danish and Swedish languages, grimoires were known as ' black books ' and were commonly found amongst members of the army.

* 871 – Battle of Reading: Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.

* 871 – Æthelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.

Even though Gospatric and Siward's son Waltheof submitted by the end of the year, the arrival of a Danish army under Sweyn Estridsson seemed to ensure that William's position remained weak.

In 1206, a Danish army led by king Valdemar II and Andreas, the Bishop of Lund landed on Saaremaa and attempted to establish a stronghold without success.

During the reign of his successor Æthelwulf, a Danish army arrived in the Thames estuary but was decisively defeated.

In 851 a huge Danish army, said to have been carried on 350 ships, arrived in the Thames estuary.

In 865, another enormous Danish army arrived in England.

Wessex was invaded in 871, and although Aethelred and Alfred won some victories and succeeded in preventing the conquest of their kingdom, a number of defeats, heavy losses of men and the arrival of a fresh Danish army in England compelled Alfred to pay the Danes to leave Wessex.

A portion of the Danish army settled in Mercia, but at the beginning of 878 the remaining Danes mounted a winter invasion of Wessex, taking Alfred by surprise and overrunning much of the kingdom.

In the 890s these reforms helped him to repulse the invasion of another huge Danish army – which was aided by the Danes settled in England – with minimal losses.

This Danish army first arrived in Britain in 865 in East Anglia.

* April 18 – Danish-Prussian War ( Second War of Schleswig ) – Battle of Dybbøl: The Prussian army fielding 10, 000 men defeats the Danish defending army of 9, 200 at Dybbøl Mill, after an artillery bombardment from April 7 to April 18.

* February 17 – Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants ' republic of Dithmarschen.

* August 4 – Thirty Years ' War: With the help of Danish and Swedish reinforcements, Stralsund is able to resist Wallenstein's siege until the landing of a Danish army, led by Christian IV of Denmark, forces Wallenstein to raise the siege and move his army to confront the new threat.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

The word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard.

The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ).

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 ).

One of the terms of the surrender was that Guthrum convert to Christianity ; and three weeks later the Danish king and 29 of his chief men were baptised at Alfred's court at Aller, near Athelney, with Alfred receiving Guthrum as his spiritual son.

Alfred however was still forced to contend with a number of Danish threats.

Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions.

After traveling up the River Stour, the fleet was met by Danish vessels that numbered 13 or 16 ( sources vary on the number ) and a battle ensued.

The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.

The Danish fleet was able to defeat Alfred's fleet which may have been weakened in the previous engagement.

Between the restoration of London and the resumption of large scale Danish attacks in the early 890s, Alfred ’ s reign was rather uneventful.

Absalon or Axel ( – 21 March 1201 ) was a Danish archbishop and statesman, who was the Bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and Archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death.

He was a key figure in the Danish policies of territorial expansion in the Baltic Sea, Europeanization in close relationship with the Holy See, and reform in the relation between the Church and the public.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

Absalon probably did not take part in the following battle of Grathe Heath in 1157, in which Sweyn was defeated and slain and led to Valdemar ascending the Danish throne.

Absalon was a close counsellor of Valdemar, and chief promotor of the Danish crusades against the Wends.

It was also Absalon who held the first Danish Synod at Lund in 1167.

Under Canute VI, Absalon was the chief policymaker in Danish politics.

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

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