The Second war of Schleswig is concluded…

The Second war of Schleswig is concluded by treaty on October 30, 1864.

Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.

The war causes Denmark as a nation severe trauma, forcing it to reconsider its place in the world.

The loss of Schleswig-Holstein comes as the latest in the long series of defeats and territorial loss that had begun in the seventeenth century.

The Danish state has now lost some of the richest areas of the kingdom: Skåne to Sweden and Schleswig to Germany, so the nation focuses on developing the poorer areas of the country.

Extensive agricultural improvements take place in Jutland, and a new form of nationalism, which emphasizes the "small" people, the decency of rural Denmark, and the shunning of wider aspirations, develops.