Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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g adjoining Holstein. On the partof England, the conquests made fromDenmark in the East and West Indieswere restored—all, in short, that hadbeen occupied by British troops, ex-cepting Heligoland. The Monarchy in Danger. After the Congress of Vienna, bywhich the extent of the Danish mon-archy was considerably reduced, thecourt of Copenhagen was from time totime disquieted by a spirit of discontentmanifesting itself in the duchies, andespecially in that of Holstein, the out-break of which in 1848 threatened themonarchy with complete dissolution.A short recapitulation of the relation ofthe different parts of the kingdom toeach other will furnish a key to thebetter comprehension of these internaltroubles. When Christian I. of the house ofOldenburg ascended the throne of Den-mark in 1448, he was at the same timeelected Duke of Schleswig and Hol-stein, while his younger brother re-ceived Oldenburg and Delmenh(5rst.In 1544 the older branch was againdivided into two lines, that of the royal
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183 184 DENMARK, SWEDEN AND NORWAY. house of Denmark, and that of thedukes of Holstein-Gottorp. Severalcollateral branches arose afterwards, ofwhich those that survived were—theAugustenburg and Glucksburg branchesbelong to the royal line, and the ducalHolstein-Gottorp branch, the head ofwhich was Peter III. of Russia. The Danish Possessions. In 1762 Peter threatened Denmarkwith a war, the avowed object of whichwas the recovery of Schleswig, whichhad been expressly guaranteed to theDanish Crown by England and Franceat the Peace of Stockholm, 1720. Hissudden dethronement, however, pre-vented him from putting this designinto execution. The Empress Cath-arine agreed to an accommodation,which was signed at Copenhagen in1764, and subsequently confirmed bythe Emperor Paul, 1773, by which theducal part of Schleswig was ceded tothe Crown of Denmark. The czarabandoned also his part of Holstein inexchange for Oldenburg and Delmon-horst, which he transferred to theyounger branch of the Gottorp

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