legoland billund Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/legoland-billund Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Visit to Denmark http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-denmark.html http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-denmark.html#respond Sun, 05 Feb 2017 21:39:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228899 1960 Denmark becomes a founding member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). 1972 Crown Princess Margrethe is proclaimed queen as Margrethe II. Denmark joins the EEC. 1974 Trade agreement with the German Democratic Republic. 1978 Abolition of the death penalty. 1979 GREENLAND is given its own administration (government and parliament for domestic matters) but remains under Danish sovereignty. A movement for independence develops. Elections to the Folketing strengthen the Social Democrats and Conservatives. The Prime Minister in office, Anker J0rgensen, forms a new Social-Democrat minority government (October). 1980 Second UN World Conference of Women meets in Copenhagen. Electoral defeat

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