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Iceland accepts christianity as their religion, Christainity is now the most popular religion in the world and has around 2.2 billion followers.
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Danish becomes the written language of Norway. Stays under Danish rule until 1814. Many Danish customs still exist in Norway today.
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Queen Christina rules Sweden, this is important because she ended the Thirty year War.
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The treaty of kiel has been made between Sweden and Denmark. Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden. By doing this it ended the union initiated in 1380.
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Inspired by the United States Declaration of Indepences and the French Revolution which is why it is very similar to ours. It is the first single-document national constitution in Europe.
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On this date, Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden. This is the first step towards Norway's constitution and independence,
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The seperation of the United Kingdoms of Sweden & Norway, seperation into two seperate states that had the same king. Formal peaceful separation acknowledged by sweden October 26, 1905.
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Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy, this government system is used still today and is used in 44 other countries.
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Finland aopdted its own currency which is called the Murkko. This made things easier, there now is not many different types of currencys.
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denmark decides to stay neutral in ww1 so that they dont have to get involved in the fighting, they werent on the losing side at least and they could focus on their own economy.
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This is the date when Finland declared its independence from Russia, this would be important becasue they gave Finland their own way to run a country.
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Denmark is the only country that decided to save all of their jewish people from being slaughtered by the nazis, showing how much protection they provide for their citizens.
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As part of WWII, Nazi Germany invades Norway and takes over. The government returns June 7, 1945. As a result of neutrality in WWI I believe Norway appeared weak and made themselves an easy target, however it allowed them to focus on their own economy.
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Sweden is forced to allow German troops to march through Sweden to Norway, during World war 2, this is important because it hepled Germans invade Norway.
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iceland goes through two cod wars against the Britsh, it was over Icelands fishing limits, British thought they were overfishing and an additional cod war began a few years later
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Denmark joins the EU officially there are today a total of 27 countries apart of the EU that can help eachother in times of economic difficulties.
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Finland became a memeber of the EU as the sixth country, it happened after the Cold War. This is important because it made Finland more stable within the country.
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When Finland became a member of the United Nations, there is now 192 states that are part of the united nations.
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Iceland just recently applied to be part of the EU,have not been accepted yet however, they have been part of the EU market. This is important because countries in the EU have been more successful economically
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Iceland becomes the first settlement of the Norse people, other countries are also settled by the Norse such as Ireland, and Scotland
