Denmark–Norway Danmark–Norge
Status | Personal union (1523–1533) Dualistic unitary state (Real union) (1537–1814)
Capital | Copenhagen and Oslo (Only in Norway 1523–1537)
Common languages | Official: Danish, German, Renaissance Latin Also spoken: Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Sami, Greenlandic
Religion | Lutheran
Government | Monarchy Denmark Elective monarchy 1523–1660 Hereditary absolute monarchy 1660–1814 Norway Elective monarchy 1523–1537 (de facto) Hereditary monarchy 1537–1814 (Absolute from 1661)
King |
• 1524–1533 | Frederick I
• 1588–1648 | Christian IV
• 1648–1670 | Frederick III
• 1808–1814a | Frederick VI
Legislature | Riksråd and Herredag Absolute monarchy 1660–1814 Norwegian Government commission 1807–1810
Historical era | Early modern Europe
• Gustav Vasa elected King of Sweden | 6 June 1523
• Kalmar Union collapsed | 1523
• Norwegian riksråd abolished | 1537
• Danish rigsråd abolished | 14 October 1660
• Lex Regia [da; de; no] confirms absolutism | 14 November 1665
• Treaty of Brömsebro | 13 August 1645
• Treaty of Roskilde | 26 February 1658
• Treaty of Kiel | 14 January 1814
• Congress of Vienna | September 1814 – June 1815