Danish History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The bank was established on 1 August ______ by King Frederick VI of Denmark.
  2. Complete the sentence about Danmarks Nationalbank with the correct year: In ______, the National Bank became the sole banker for the Danish government.
  3. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The last two branches, in Aarhus and Odense, closed in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Monarchy of Denmark with the correct year: The last monarch descended from Valdemar IV, Christopher III of Denmark, died in ______ AD.
  5. Complete the sentence about Monarchy of Denmark with the correct year: In ______, during the Second Northern War, King Frederick III launched a war of revenge against Sweden which turned into a comple…
  6. Complete the sentence about Margrethe II of Denmark with the correct year: In ______ she married Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, with whom she had two sons, Frederik and Joachim.
  7. Complete the sentence about Margrethe II of Denmark with the correct year: Margrethe succeeded her father upon his death in January ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Frederik X of Denmark with the correct year: Frederik met Australian marketing consultant Mary Donaldson while attending the ______ Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  9. Complete the sentence about Frederik X of Denmark with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, Frederik began studying political science at Aarhus University.
  10. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Denmark with the correct year: The Constitution of ______ established a constitutional monarchy by limiting the powers of the monarch and creating the off…
  11. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Denmark with the correct year: The king held executive authority as absolute ruler from ______ until the enactment of a liberal Constitution in the early…
  12. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Denmark with the correct year: The first council president was Adam Wilhelm Moltke, who came to power on 22 March ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Denmark with the correct year: On 29 August ______, the Danish government resigned, refusing to grant further concessions to Nazi Germany.
  14. Complete the sentence about Helle Thorning-Schmidt with the correct year: Since ______, Thorning-Schmidt has served as a co-chair of the Meta Oversight Board.
  15. Complete the sentence about Helle Thorning-Schmidt with the correct year: Thorning-Schmidt studied political science at University of Copenhagen, earning a cand.scient.pol. degree in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Helle Thorning-Schmidt with the correct year: After her time in Brussels she worked as an international consultant with the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions until being…
  17. Complete the sentence about Mette Frederiksen with the correct year: Mette Frederiksen was born on 19 November ______ in Aalborg, located in the North Jutland Region of northern Denmark.
  18. Complete the sentence about Anders Fogh Rasmussen with the correct year: In his early career, Rasmussen was a strident critic of the welfare state, writing the classical liberal book From Social State…
  19. Complete the sentence about Anders Fogh Rasmussen with the correct year: As an amateur cyclist, Rasmussen completed part of the notorious Alpe d'Huez stage of the ______ Tour de France the day after t…
  20. Complete the sentence about Poul Schlüter with the correct year: In ______, Schlüter was elected to the Folketing for the Conservative People's Party.
  21. Complete the sentence about Poul Schlüter with the correct year: In ______, after Prime Minister Anker Jørgensen was forced to resign, Schlüter constructed a four-party coalition and was appointed his…
  22. Complete the sentence about Venstre with the correct year: After a disappointing ______ general election, Ellemann-Jensen resigned as chairman and Anders Fogh Rasmussen was elected in his place.
  23. Complete the sentence about Danish Defence with the correct year: The modern Danish military can be traced back to ______, with the creation of the permanent Royal Danish Navy.
  24. Complete the sentence about Flexicurity with the correct year: The 'Constitution' was revised in ______ and renamed Basic Agreement.
  25. Complete the sentence about Flexicurity with the correct year: Such common principles were adopted on 5 December ______ by the Employment and Social Affairs Council.
  26. Complete the sentence about Danish alphabet with the correct year: Similarly, the letter ⟨å⟩ was introduced in Danish in ______, but the final decision on its place in the alphabet was not made.
  27. Complete the sentence about Copenhagen Climate Summit with the correct year: The ______ United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center…
  28. Complete the sentence about Copenhagen Climate Summit with the correct year: According to the Bali Road Map, a framework for climate change mitigation beyond ______ was to be agreed there.
  29. Complete the sentence about Danish cartoon controversy with the correct year: The issue received prominent media attention in some Muslim-majority countries, leading to protests across the world in la…
  30. Complete the sentence about Faroese language with the correct year: In ______, the Danish Bible Society published a diglot of the Gospel of Matthew, with Faroese on the left and Danish on the right.
  31. Complete the sentence about Faroese language with the correct year: Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb and the Icelandic grammarian and politician Jón Sigurðsson published a written standard for Modern F…
  32. Complete the sentence about Faroese language with the correct year: In ______, Scripture Gift Mission published the Gospel of John in Faroese.
  33. Complete the sentence about Faroese language with the correct year: The first complete translation of the Bible was completed in ______.
  34. Which place completes the sentence? Canute was killed at the Bloodfeast of ______ in August 1157.
  35. Which place completes this sentence about Valdemar I of Denmark? In 1158, Absalon was elected bishop of ______, and King Valdemar made him his chief advisor.
  36. Which place completes this sentence about Count's Feud? Skipper Clement was later sentenced to death by the judicial council in ______ and executed in 1536.
  37. Which place completes this sentence about Danish Reformation? Already in 1525, Hans Tausen, a Knight Hospitaller from the monastery of Antvorskov, had begun preaching Lutheran doctrines in ______.
  38. Which place completes this sentence about Danish resistance movement? The Churchill club, one of the first resistance groups in Denmark, was a group of eight schoolboys from ______.
  39. Which place completes this sentence about Mette Frederiksen? Mette Frederiksen was born on 19 November 1977 in ______, located in the North Jutland Region of northern Denmark.
  40. Complete the sentence about Danish euro referendum, 2000 with the correct year: Euro banknotes and coins would be introduced as from 1 January ______, after which krone banknotes and coins would be wi…
  41. Complete the sentence about Prime Minister of Denmark with the correct year: Mette Frederiksen has served as Prime Minister of Denmark since 27 June ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Mette Frederiksen with the correct year: After the Social Democrats' defeat in ______, she succeeded Thorning-Schmidt as party leader and became Leader of the Opposition.
  43. Complete the sentence about Danish People's Party with the correct year: In the ______ European Parliament election in Denmark, DF secured 27% of the vote as part of the European Conservatives and Ref…
  44. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The ______ Euro Plus Pact calls for its promotion in the Eurozone.
  45. Complete the sentence about Battle of Lyndanisse with the correct year: On 15 June ______, the Estonians attacked the Danes near the castle, right after supper time.
  46. Complete the sentence about Battle of Lyndanisse with the correct year: Tradition has maintained that the Danish flag appeared at the Battle of Lyndanisse on 15 June ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Erik of Pomerania with the correct year: In ______, Bogislaw was brought to Denmark to be raised by Queen Margaret.
  48. Complete the sentence about Erik of Pomerania with the correct year: On 8 September ______, he was hailed as King of Norway at the Ting in Trondheim.
  49. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Erik was proclaimed as king in Denmark and then in Sweden.
  50. Complete the sentence about Erik of Pomerania with the correct year: On 17 June ______, he was crowned king of the three Nordic countries in the cathedral of Kalmar.
  51. Complete the sentence about Christian I of Denmark with the correct year: Christiern was born in February ______ in Oldenburg in Northern Germany as the eldest son of Count Dietrich of Oldenburg with…
  52. Complete the sentence about Christian I of Denmark with the correct year: At the death of their father in ______, Christian and his brothers jointly succeeded Dietrich as Count of Oldenburg and Delmen…
  53. Complete the sentence about Christian I of Denmark with the correct year: In January ______, King Christopher of Denmark, Sweden and Norway died suddenly and without natural heirs.
  54. Complete the sentence about Frederick I of Denmark with the correct year: Not originally destined for the throne, he received joint rule in Schleswig and Holstein on reaching his majority in ______ an…
  55. Complete the sentence about Frederick I of Denmark with the correct year: In Norway, where he neither travelled nor was crowned, he was styled “elected king”, but acknowledged by the Council in ______…
  56. Complete the sentence about Frederick I of Denmark with the correct year: In ______ at Frederick's majority, both duchies were divided between the brothers.
  57. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he had convinced his brother King John to conquer Dithmarschen.
  58. Complete the sentence about Christian III of Denmark with the correct year: In ______, when he was just ten years old, Christian's mother died.
  59. Complete the sentence about Christian III of Denmark with the correct year: In ______, Frederick I was elected King of Denmark in the place of his nephew, Christian II.
  60. Complete the sentence about Christian III of Denmark with the correct year: At their urging, while traveling in Germany in ______, he made himself present at the Diet of Worms to hear Martin Luther sp…
  61. Complete the sentence about Frederick II of Denmark with the correct year: In ______, Frederick married his cousin Sophie of Mecklenburg.
  62. Complete the sentence about Frederick II of Denmark with the correct year: In ______, the Prince travelled around Denmark and was hailed by the people.
  63. Complete the sentence about Christian V of Denmark with the correct year: Prince Christian was born on 15 April ______ at Duborg Castle in the city of Flensburg, then located in the Duchy of Schleswig…
  64. Complete the sentence about Christian V of Denmark with the correct year: After the death of King Christian IV in ______, Frederick thus became King of Denmark and Norway as Frederick III.
  65. Complete the sentence about Christian V of Denmark with the correct year: Prince Christian was elected successor to his father in June ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Christian V of Denmark with the correct year: From ______ he was allowed to attend proceedings of the State College.
  67. Complete the sentence about Christian X of Denmark with the correct year: Prince Christian was less than two years older than his brother Prince Carl, and the two princes had a joint confirmation at t…
  68. Complete the sentence about Frederik IX of Denmark with the correct year: Frederik died in ______, and was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Margrethe II.
  69. Complete the sentence about Frederik IX of Denmark with the correct year: Christian IX died on 29 January ______, and Frederik's grandfather Crown Prince Frederik succeeded him as King Frederik VIII.
  70. Complete the sentence about Easter Crisis with the correct year: As Denmark had been operating as a parliamentary democracy since the Cabinet of Deuntzer in ______, Zahle felt he was under no obligati…
  71. Which place completes this sentence about Treaty of Roskilde? A preliminary treaty, the Treaty of Taastrup, was signed on 18 February 1658 with the final treaty, the Treaty of ______, signed on 26 Feb…
  72. Which place completes this sentence about Frederik IX of Denmark? In 1914, the King also built the villa Klitgården in ______ in Northern Jutland.
  73. Which place completes this sentence about Battle of Copenhagen? British troops landed at Vedbæk on 16 August and began besieging Copenhagen, defeating a Danish army at the Battle of ______ on 29 Augus…
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Poul Schlüter? Born in ______, south Jutland, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1957 with a law degree, and joined the bar in 1960.
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Frederick III of Denmark? Frederick was born at ______ in Slesvig, the son of Christian IV and Anne Catherine of Brandenburg.

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