A state of emergency was declared by the King of Denmark, Frederick III in 1660. Its purpose was to put pressure on the nobility of the first estate which in Denmark at the time took the form of the R
Celebration in Frederiksborg Castle to the Treaty of Roskilde. Painting (1658) by Erik Dahlbergh.
The Assault on Copenhagen in 1659 by Frederik Christian Lund, 1887, Det Nationalhistorike Museum, Frederiksborg.
Paying homage to the hereditary king in front of the Castle of Copenhagen. Painted by Wolfgang Heimbach, 1666
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Denmark–Norway was a 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real union consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway, the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein. Th
1660 state of emergency in Denmark
…controlled in the Treaty of Roskilde. One of the provisions of the treaty was to renounce any anti-Swedish alliances, and a second condition was that Denmark-Norway must provide troops to fight in Sweden's wars, effectively making Denmark-Norway a Vassal of Sweden. Frederick, seeing the precarity of his position…
Artwork depicting ships passing by the city of Helsingør, which overlooked the Oresund
Christian IV of Denmark–Norway
The Battle of Copenhagen in 1801