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.