Denmark News News Denmark » History: The Last Time a Monarch Abdicated in Denmark
In two days, Queen Margrethe II will become the second monarch, and first queen, to abdicate the Danish throne. The last (and only other) time an abdication happened in Denmark was back in 1146, when ...
News Denmark » History: Ships carrying enslaved people wrecked amid revolts in 1700s. Now they’re found
Researchers studying two shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica discovered they belonged to a dark part of Danish history. John Fhær Engedal Nissen The National Museum of Denmark Centuries after ...
News Denmark » History: Queen Margrethe Just Made History as Denmark's Longest-Reigning Monarch — See the New Record
Europe's only ruling female monarch surpassed King Christian IV, who ruled from 1596 to 1648 CLAUS FISKER/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Queen Margrethe of Denmark reached a major milestone this month.
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