Historical place archive

Copenhagen in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Copenhagen in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

7 records6 event labels6 people1861–2002

Historical events in Copenhagen

1861

22 June 1861
Birth of Maximilian Johannes Hubert von Spee
Maximilian Johannes Hubert von Spee · Military

Birth of Maximilian Johannes Hubert von Spee

1919

1919
Embassy Counselor
Constantin Freiher von Neurath · Weimar Republic

Envoy to Copenhagen

1940

9 April 1940
Operation Weserubung
Leonhard Kaupisch · World War, 2nd

Kaupisch commands German forces in Denmark as the invasion quickly forces Danish surrender.

1982

December 1982
Copenhagen European Council
Helmut Kohl · European Economic Community (EEC)

Attends his first European Council as chancellor while the Community addresses budgetary and institutional questions.

1993

21 June 1993
Copenhagen European Council
Helmut Kohl · European Economic Community (EEC)

Represents Germany as leaders formulate conditions that future candidate countries must meet before joining the European Union.

22 June 1993
Copenhagen Enlargement Criteria
Klaus Kinkel · European Economic Community (EEC)

Supports the Copenhagen criteria linking future enlargement to democracy, market economics and acceptance of Community obligations.

2002

13 December 2002
Copenhagen Enlargement Agreement
Gerhard Schroder · European Economic Community (EEC)

Supports the agreement completing accession negotiations with ten countries scheduled to join the Union in 2004.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Germany and Copenhagen. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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