Denmark is at peace for most of…

1684 CE to 1827 CE

Denmark is at peace for most of the eighteenth century. 

The only time when war threatens is in 1762, when the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp becomes Tsar Peter III of Russia and declares war on Denmark over his ancestral claims in Schleswig.

Before any fighting can begin, however, he is overthrown by his wife, who takes control of Russia as Tsarina Catherine II.

Empress Catherine withdraws her husband's demands and negotiates the transfer of ducal Schleswig-Holstein to the Danish crown in return for Russian control of the County of Oldenburg and adjacent lands within the Holy Roman Empire, an exchange that is formalized with the 1773 Treaty of Tsarskoye Selo.

The alliance that accompanies the territorial exchange ties Denmark's foreign policy to Russia's and will lead directly to Denmark's involvement in a series of wars over the succeeding decades.

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