{"slug": "danes", "label": "Danes", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danes", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164714", "qid": "Q164714", "description": "citizens or residents of Denmark", "entries": 13, "years": 12, "span": [802, 2023], "span_label": ["802 CE", "2023 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Danish people"], "related": [{"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-east-anglia", "label": "Kingdom of East Anglia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "schleswig-holstein", "label": "Schleswig-Holstein", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "obotrites", "label": "Obotrites", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "hungarians", "label": "Hungarians", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "holstein", "label": "Holstein", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thelred-the-unready", "label": "Æthelred the Unready", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "richard-i-of-normandy", "label": "Richard I of Normandy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "emma-of-normandy", "label": "Emma of Normandy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "frisians", "label": "Frisians", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 802, "year_label": "802 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pagan Danes invade Obodrite-ruled Schleswig, to take over territory almost emptied by the forcible deportations of the Saxons by emperor Charlemagne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848783#Europe", "title": "802", "revid": 1340848783, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 808, "year_label": "808 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Godfred of the Danes forms an alliance with the Wiltzi and other Wendic tribes, against the pagan but pro-Frankish Abodrites. Godfred builds earthworks (Danevirke) across the isthmus of Schleswig-Holstein, separating Jutland from the northern extent of the Frankish Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848803#Europe", "title": "AD 808", "revid": 1340848803, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 810, "year_label": "810 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Godfred of the Danes leads 200 Viking ships to plunder the Frisian coast, and forces the merchants to pay 100 pounds of silver. He claims Northern Frisia as Danish territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848812#Europe", "title": "810", "revid": 1340848812, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 847, "year_label": "847 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Danish Vikings land in the Breton March (western part of Gaul). Duke Nominoe of Brittany fails to withstand them in battle, but succeeds in buying them off with gifts and persuading them to leave (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348153742#Europe", "title": "847", "revid": 1348153742, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 867, "year_label": "867 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Vikings or \"Danes\" (the two terms were often used interchangeably at the time), comprising the Great Heathen Army, advance northward from bases in the Kingdom of East Anglia, into the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366655299#Britain", "title": "867", "revid": 1366655299, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 897, "year_label": "897 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "English warships (nine vessels from Alfred's new fleet) intercept six Viking longships in the mouth of an unknown estuary on the south coast (possibly at Poole Harbour) in Dorset. The Danes are blockaded, and three ships attempt to break through the English lines. Lashing the Viking boats to their own, the English crew board the enemy's vessels and kill everyone on board. Some ships manage to escape, two of the other three boats are driven against the Sussex coast. The shipwrecked sailors are brought before King Alfred the Great at Winchester and hanged. Just one Viking ship returns to East Anglia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130275#Britain", "title": "897", "revid": 1341130275, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1002, "year_label": "1002 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 13", "text": "November 13 – St. Brice's Day massacre: King Æthelred the Unready orders all Danes in England killed. Æthelred marries (as his second wife) Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371270947#British_Isles", "title": "1002", "revid": 1371270947, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1704, "year_label": "1704 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21 – Battle of Biskupice: The Hungarians (Kurucs) win a costly victory over the Danes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358992532#April–June", "title": "1704", "revid": 1358992532, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1705, "year_label": "1705 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – Battle of Zsibó: The Austrian-Danish forces defeat the Kurucs (Hungarians).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355353320#October–December", "title": "1705", "revid": 1355353320, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1776, "year_label": "1776 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 15", "text": "15 January – The Danish Citizenship Act of 1776 reserves state offices for Danish, Norwegian and Holstein citizens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343532100#Events", "title": "1776 in Denmark", "revid": 1343532100, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1776, "year_label": "1776 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "January 15", "text": "15 January – A Danish-Norwegian Nationality Act reserves state offices for Norwegian, Danish and Holstein citizens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318417041#Events", "title": "1776 in Norway", "revid": 1318417041, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1843, "year_label": "1843 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 or 17 – A group of 24 West Indian Moravians from Jamaica and Antigua, recruited by the Danish minister and Basel missionary, Andreas Riis, arrive in Christiansborg (Osu), Gold Coast, now Ghana, to set up schools and Presbyterian churches in the country.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366016136#April–June", "title": "1843", "revid": 1366016136, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for the second consecutive time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#July", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › July"}}]}