Christian V codifies Danish Law in the late 1600s, and his successor joins forces with Russia and Poland to break the Swedish Empire – and we visit the colonies!

Denmark transitions to absolute monarchy under interesting circumstances and then tries to win back land from Sweden.

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Frederick III outmaneuvers his rivals but is then faced with a crisis that threatens to destroy the independence of Denmark.

Christian IV charges headlong into the Thirty Years War and then faces a rising Sweden.

We look at the first half of the reign of one of the most famous of the Danish monarchs.

Denmark and Sweden quarrel over trade and coats-of-arms.

The teachings of Martin Luther are enacted in the Kingdom of Denmark in the aftermath of a civil war.

We reach the transitory period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. King Hans fights pole-vaulting German peasants and his son, Christian II, becomes known as “Tyrant Christian”.

The Kalmar Union shatters and reunites several times and a new dynasty gains control of Denmark!

The last Eric to rule Denmark feuds with Holstein and the Hanseatic League.