When Valdemar returned to Denmark, he was convinced into strengthening the Danevirke fortifications at the German border, with the support of Absalon.

When Denmark refused, Austria and Prussia invaded, commencing the Second war of Schleswig and Denmark was forced to cede both duchies.

When the Nazis occupied Denmark during World War II, Borge was playing a concert in Sweden, and managed to escape to Finland.

When adopting the gold standard, many European nations changed the name of their currency from Daler ( Sweden and Denmark ) or Gulden ( Austria-Hungary ) to Crown, since the former names were traditionally associated with silver coins and the latter with gold coins.

When the National Liberals came to power in Denmark, in 1848, it provoked an uprising of ethnic Germans who supported Schleswig's ties with Holstein.

When Alexandra's father inherited the throne of Denmark in November 1863, the German Confederation took the opportunity to invade and annex Schleswig-Holstein.

When peace was concluded with Denmark, the anti-Swedish coalition had already fallen apart, and Denmark was not in a military position to negotiate a return of her former eastern provinces across the sound.

When Sweden finally was at peace with Hanover, Great Britain, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark – Norway, she hoped that the anti-Russian sentiments of the Vienna parties and France would culminate in an alliance which would restore to her her Russian-occupied eastern provinces.

When things settled down, the Privy Council of Denmark had lost some of its influence, and that of Norway no longer existed.

When asked for his thoughts on the Allied battle plan, Hitler had said, " I think that diversionary actions will take place in a number of places-against Norway, Denmark, the southern part of western France, and the French Mediterranean coast ".

When a massive slave revolt planned by Denmark Vesey, a free black, was discovered in 1822, such hysteria ensued amidst white Charlestonians and Carolinians that the activities of free blacks and slaves were severely restricted.

When the two kingdoms of Denmark and Norway were separated by the Treaty of Kiel in 1814 following the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark kept Iceland as a dependency.

When Carl accepted the offer that same evening ( after the approval of his grandfather Christian IX of Denmark ), he immediately endeared himself to his adopted country by taking the Old Norse name of Haakon, a name used by previous Kings of Norway.

When his grandfather Valdemar IV of Denmark died, Olaf was just five years old.

When he visited Denmark for a peace congress in October 2002 ( the World Chechen Congress event in Copenhagen ), the Russians demanded his arrest and extradition ; Zakayev was held for over a month, but was released after Danish authorities stated they were not convinced that sufficient evidence had been provided.

* When writing Hamlet, Shakespeare assumed ( perhaps relying on his sources ) that the royal house of Denmark employed a Swiss Guard: In Act V, Scene v ( line 98 ) he has King Claudius exclaim " Where are my Switzers?

When Ansgar the Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, set out on the " Mission to bring Christianity to the North ", he made a request in 860, to the King of Denmark, that the first Scandinavian church be built in Ribe.

When he lived in Denmark, he became friends with the family of the future Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, and subsequently became Lars's godfather.

When the Danish nobility opposed his rule and refused to ratify his choice of Bogislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania as the next King of Denmark, he left Denmark and settled at his castle Visborg in Gotland, apparently a kind of a “ royal strike ” which led to his deposition by the National Councils of Denmark and Sweden in 1439.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

When Pope John XXIII abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and John Paul II continued to do.

When the French Constituent Assembly abolished the " feudal regime " in August 1789 this is what was meant.

When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius.

When forced to reconvene it, he abolished the representative body instead.

When the German government abolished gambling in the 1860s, the Blanc family moved to the last legal remaining casino operation in Europe at Monte Carlo, where they established a gambling mecca for the elite of Europe.

When Jefferson became President, the Congress abolished several of these courts and made no provision for the judges of those courts.

When one party rule was first abolished in 1991, many expected a more democratic future for Zambia.

When Struensee abolished all censorship of the press, it mostly resulted in a flood of anti-Struensee pamphlets.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved industry toward war production, the PWA was abolished and its functions were transferred to the Federal Works Agency in June 1943.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty came to power in 1644, they abolished the southern counterpart, and Hebei became known as " Zhili ", or simply " Directly Ruled ".

When the war ended, he also opposed the post-war constitutional amendments ( 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments upon ratification ) that banned many southerners from voting, granted voting rights to males of all races, and abolished slavery.

When the GLC was abolished in 1986, its housing assets and the remaining undeveloped land was vested in a non-profit organisation Thamesmead Town Limited ( TTL ).

When reforms abolished traditional systems of education, Rhee enrolled in Paejae School, an institution which had been established by a missionary from the United States.

When abolished, for local government purposes, in 1975, the county of East Lothian bordered the county of Midlothian to the west, and the county of Berwick to the south.

When the Chinese Republic was founded in 1911, the superior prefecture was abolished, and the city took the name of Hefei.

When it was abolished in 1880, he became the member for Wellington, from November 1880 to 1882, and East Sydney, from November 1882 to January 1887.

When the GLC was in turn abolished in 1986, the social housing on Britwell was transferred to Slough Borough Council.

When Berkshire County Council was abolished in April 1998, the village came under the local governance of the Slough unitary authority, together with neighbouring Poyle.

When six martyred ministers were implicated in a plot to restore Danjong to throne, Sejo abolished the Hall of Worthies and executed Danjong and many ministers who served during Sejong's reign.

When the Occupation began, the d ' jara system was abolished and most of the planet's population became slave laborers.

When the United States occupied Japan in 1945, the shrines were taken out of government control, and State Shinto was abolished.

When Innocent III effectively abolished Ordeal in 1215 England was not faced with the same predicament as continental Europe to find a new criminal procedure and a new mode of proof.

When Ordeal was abolished, English Judges who went on circuit, cast about for a new mode of trial and naturally turned to the already established process of trial by jury.