Kulture Flashcards
When was Harold Bluetooth baptized?
965 AD and Christianity came to Denmark
When did the British conquer our navy, and when did they bomb Copenhagen?
British conquered in 1801 and bombed Copenhagen in 1807
When did Denmark lose the Swedish provinces of Skåne, Halland and Blekinge?
1658
When did we lose Norway?
When nation ceded in 1814
When does Grundloven (the Constitution) date from?
1849, it defined Denmark politically as a Democracy
When did we lose Slesvig and Holsten to Prussia?
1864
When did we regain the southern part of Jutland?
1920
When was the constitution signed?
1849 giving power to the people
How did the welfare program develop historically?
1890s - first introduced health insurance (for some), old age pensions, accident insurance
● 1933 - social reforms - acts turned to codes
● Legal principle - civil rights were not harmed in anyway
● Social democrats formed a coalition and new parties developed
● 1956 - old age pensions to everyone
● 1973 - landslide elections, mandatory health insurance, oil crisis, everybody covered
Law of Abolition of the Adscript
1788
When, how, and why did the Danish cooperative associations develop?
Economic crisis in 1870s
when was the first folk school opened?
1844 in Rødding, Denmark.