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This is a list of wars and war-like conflicts involving the modern Kingdom of Denmark and predecessor states. Danish victory Danish defeat Another result * *e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Denmark, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.
The St. Brice's Day massacre was a mass killing of Danes within England on 13 November 1002, on the order of King Æthelred the Unready of England. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle relates that the massacre was carried out in response to an accusation that the Danes would "beshrew [Æthelred] of his life, and afterwards all his council, and then have his kingdom without any resistance."
In the following days the British prepared to attack, and they sailed further south, past Copenhagen, to avoid the Danish land batteries at Sixtus, Quintus and Trekroner. [ 2 ] Lord Horatio Nelson had been given command of twelve of the British ships of the line , and had the task of getting them through the tight defense that surrounded ...
On 5 May 1945, British troops liberated Copenhagen. Three days later, the war ended. Denmark succeeded in smuggling most of its Jewish population to Sweden, in 1943, when the Nazis threatened deportation; see Rescue of the Danish Jews. Danish doctors refused to treat German citizens fleeing from Germany.
1535 – 9 June A Danish and Swedish fleet fights a naval battle against Lübeck. The battle ends in a draw but in the coming days the Lübeck fleet is destroyed; 1536 – 11 June In the Danish Civil War a Danish peasant army is massacred in the battle of Oxnebjerg; 1537 – 16 January Lübeck concludes peace with Christian the Third.
German–Danish war of 974: 974 Hedeby under German occupation from 974 to 981 Battle of Svolder: 1000 Division of Norway Cnut's invasion of England: 1016 England subjugated by Denmark Battle of Helgeå: 1026 Unclear results Death of Cnut the great 1035 Fraction of the North Sea Empire: peasant rebellion in Vendsyssel: 1086 Death of Canute IV ...
The troops of the Danish King Valdemar Atterdag won several battles on Gotland against Gutnish troops, the last outside Visby on 27 July. The inhabitants of Visby surrendered and opened the city gates to the victor, after which the so-called fire assessment of Visby took place, an event surrounded by several myths. The king issued letters of ...
Danish Victory Scanian War, 1675–1679 Sweden Denmark-Norway Peace of Lund: Stalemate Great Northern War first Danish Intervention, 1700. See Peace of Travendal. Sweden Denmark-Norway Peace of Travendal: Swedish Victory Great Northern War second Danish Intervention, 1709–1720 Sweden Denmark-Norway Treaty of Frederiksborg: Danish Victory