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On 27 May, the treaty was signed in the tents that had been erected halfway between Copenhagen and the fortified Swedish camp of Carlstad. Four days later the remnants of the Swedish army in Zealand, now numbering 3,000, finally began leaving the outskirts of Copenhagen. The terms of the treaty were as follows:
The Treaty of Copenhagen or Treaty of 1670 was a treaty of commerce and alliance signed on 11 July 1670, between King Christian V of Denmark and of Norway and King Charles II of England and of Scots. It was written in Latin. It was expanded the next day, 12 July 1670, with the Third Article concerning contraband amended and clarified by a ...
Treaty of Copenhagen (1670), a treaty of commerce and alliance between Denmark-Norway and Great Britain; Treaty of Copenhagen (1709), an alliance in the Great Northern War; Copenhagen Convention of 1857 governing transit passage through the Danish straits, whereby a group of shipping nations bought out the Sound Dues in the Øresund
Following the signing of the Roskilde treaty, Swedish troops still occupied the Danish islands, except Zealand. Charles X Gustav took advantage of the situation by landing in Korsør on 6 August 1658 with 5,200 men. Charles X Gustav began a siege of Copenhagen on 11 August, to starve the city's inhabitants into submission.
France and England intervened for Sweden and the situation again teetered on the edge of a major conflict. However, the Danish statesman Hannibal Sehested negotiated a peace treaty without any direct involvement by foreign powers. The conflict was resolved with the Treaty of Copenhagen (1660). Sweden returned Bornholm and Trøndelag to Denmark ...
Swedish shipping became exempt from the Sound Dues by the terms of the Treaty of Copenhagen, signed on 27 May 1660. The exemption was withdrawn after Sweden's defeat in the Great Northern War and the Treaty of Frederiksborg of 1720, although the eastern shore of the Sound was now Swedish.
The morning after the assault on Copenhagen, 1659, painted by Christian Mølsted in 1919. At about five in the morning on 11 February the Swedes gave up and retreated. [15] They had taken severe losses, with around 2,000 dead. [2] Beyond Copenhagen's walls, 600 bodies were counted, though many more had perished in the ice-cold water and were ...
The Copenhagen Convention, [1] which came into force on 14 March 1857, [2] is a maritime treaty governing transit passage through the Danish straits. Provisions