Danes III

1536-1650 CE

From 1536 to 1650 CE, the Danes grasped for Baltic empire and found only overreach — Christian III imposing Luther's reformation from above, his successors dreaming of controlling the Sound tolls and Scandinavian union, their armies marching into Germany only for Christian IV to stumble home from the Thirty Years' War with nothing but debts and diminished borders. Yet Copenhagen grew wealthy on the ships that paid to pass Elsinore's cannons.