Door

The Sealed Room

By Andrew Cracium

  • Denmark began freeing serfs

  • Bernhard Severin Ingemann was born

    Author of "The Sealed Room" was born

  • modern system of public education and social security started

    country saw more literature and philospy, led to a new want for liberal and centralized constitution

  • English Attack

    English's first attack on Denmark due to them not willing to agree to English demands during a war between a French-Russian alliance and English-Swedish alliance

  • 2nd English Attack

    English shelled Copenhagen, known as world's first shellings on civillians

  • Congress of Vienna

    Denmark had to give Norway to Sweden, in return Denmark obtained the small duchy of Lauenburg, and southeast of the duchy of Holstein (Duchy- Territory of a Duke or Duchess)

  • pressure of public opinion made King Frederik VII agree to a democratic constitution for Denmark

  • democratic constitution adopted in 1849 granted the highest power of government to an elected two-house parliament

  • Bernhard Severin Ingemann's Death

    The author of "The Sealed Room", died at the age of 72

  • People from Denmark start migrating to U.S.