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Key

Denmark–Norway The great nobles and their council Burghers and clergy Sweden The emperor and the Catholic League The Dutch Republic bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Christian IV of Denmark — Wikipedia: the 1596 charter, the towns he founded, the Sound dues, Lutter, Kolberger Heide, his death — source
  2. Kalmar War — Wikipedia, with Kalmarkrigen (Danish Wikipedia): Charles IX's northern claims, Kalmar, Älvsborg, the Peace of Knäred — source
  3. Battle of Kringen, 26 August 1612 — Wikipedia — source
  4. Danish India — Wikipedia: the East India Company charter of 1616 and the Tranquebar treaty of November 1620 — source
  5. Treaty of Lübeck (1629) — Wikipedia: the Ulvsbäck meeting and the terms — source
  6. Aarhus University, Danish history, module 4: Denmark and the rest of the world — the council and the wars, 1611–1660 — source
  7. Torstenson War and the Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645) — Wikipedia — source
  8. Hannibal Sehested and Corfitz Ulfeldt — Wikipedia: the king's sons-in-law and their falls in 1651 — source
  9. March Across the Belts — Wikipedia, with Freden i Roskilde (Danish Wikipedia) for the negotiators — source
  10. Dano-Swedish War (1658–1660) — Wikipedia: the Dutch relief, Trondheim, Bornholm, Nyborg, the Treaty of Copenhagen — source
  11. Enevældens indførelse 1660–1661 — danmarkshistorien.lex.dk: the estates, 8–18 October 1660 — source
  12. Otte Krag — Dansk Biografisk Leksikon: the council's stand at the 1660 assembly — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

Denmark–Norway, 1600–1660

How did Denmark–Norway lose its lands across the Sound to Sweden, and its nobles their hold on the crown?
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