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Daniello Bartoli
Daniello Bartoli (1608–1685) was an Italian Jesuit priest, historiographer, and moralist from Ferrara who wrote the first official vernacular history of the Jesuits' missions, covering Asia, Japan, China, England, and Italy.
Daniello Concina
Daniello Concina (1687–1756) was a Dominican preacher and moral theologian of Friuli, active in Venice, who led eighteenth-century Italian criticism of Jesuit probabilism and wrote the twelve-volume Theologia christiana dogmatico-moralis.
Daniels family murders
The Daniels family murders were the December 4, 1997 shotgun killings of Danny, Kim, Jessica, and Bryant Daniels in Santa Claus, Georgia, by Jerry Scott Heidler.
Daniil Adashev
Daniil Adashev (Даниил Фёдорович Адашев) was a Russian commander and courtier under Ivan the Terrible, younger brother of the tsar's favorite Alexei Adashev, executed in the early 1560s.
Daniil Barkalov
Daniil Barkalov is a Russian-born fintech executive, co-founder and chief operating officer of Tabby, the buy-now-pay-later company launched in Dubai in 2019 and valued at $6.5 billion in 2026.
Daniil Chorny
Daniil Chorny (Даниил Чёрный) was a Russian icon painter, the senior partner and presumed teacher of Andrei Rublev, with whom he painted the Vladimir Dormition Cathedral frescoes in 1408.
Daniil Kholmsky
Daniil Kholmsky (Даниил Дмитриевич Холмский) was a Russian boyar and commander under Ivan III of Moscow, active from the 1460s until his death in 1493.
Daniil of Galicia
Daniil of Galicia, also called Daniil Romanovich, ruled Galicia-Volhynia in western Kievan Rus' and was crowned king of Rus' at Dorohychyn in late 1253 by a papal legate.
Daniil Zatochnik
Daniil Zatochnik (Даниил Заточник) is the presumed 12th- or 13th-century author of an outstanding work of Old Russian literature, known as the Slovo and the Molenie.
Danilo Dolci
Danilo Dolci was an Italian sociologist and nonviolent activist known as the "Sicilian Gandhi" who fought for farmers in western Sicily from 1952 until his death in 1997.
Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro
Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš (1826–1860), also numbered Danilo II in the dynasty, first secular Prince of Montenegro from 1852; issued the 1855 Law Code, won Grahovac in 1858, assassinated 1860, succeeded by nephew Nikola I.
Danilo II
Danilo II (Данило II), also known as Danilo of Peć, was archbishop of Serbia from 1324 until his death in 1337 and wrote the Lives of the Serbian Kings and Archbishops.
Danilo Restivo
Danilo Restivo, Italian murderer (the "Barber of Potenza"), serving life in Britain for Heather Barnett's 2002 Bournemouth murder and 30 years in absentia for Elisa Claps's 1993 Potenza murder; hair placed in victims' hands.
Danish and Norwegian alphabet
Danish and Norwegian alphabet, the Dano-Norwegian alphabet: a 29-letter Latin variant ending æ, ø, å, shared by Danish and Norwegian; å adopted 1917 (Norway) and 1948 (Denmark), unlike Swedish ä, ö.
Danish colonization of St. Thomas
The Danish colonization of St. Thomas began in 1672 under Governor Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, establishing the first island of the Danish West Indies, ruled by Denmark until 1917.
Danish Defence
Danish Defence (Det Danske Forsvar): Denmark's unified military under Defence Command Denmark, covering Army, Navy, Air Force, and Joint Arctic Command; gender-equal 11-month conscription and the 2024-2033 Defence Agreement distinguish it.
Danish India
Danish India: the Danish-Norwegian colonies in India 1620-1845, mainly Tranquebar (Tharangambadi) and Serampore, founded by Ove Giedde's expedition, sites of the first Lutheran mission and Serampore College, sold to Britain in 1845 for 1,125,000 rigsdaler.
Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy
The Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy (DIPD) is a Danish state-funded institution, established by law in 2010 to support political parties and multiparty systems in developing countries.
Danish krone
The Danish krone is the currency of Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, pegged to the euro since 1982 under a treaty opt-out that keeps Denmark outside the euro area.
Danish language
Danish (dansk) is a North Germanic language spoken by around 6 million people, official in Denmark and the Faroe Islands and closely related to Norwegian and Swedish.
Danish overseas colonies
Danish overseas colonies: Greenland, Iceland, Faroes, Gold Coast forts, Danish West Indies, and Tranquebar/Serampore in India, 1620s to 1917; first state to ban the Atlantic slave trade (1792/1803).
Danish People's Party
Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti, DF), Danish right-wing populist party founded in 1995 by Pia Kjærsgaard as a Progress Party breakaway; anti-immigration, welfare-chauvinist, EU-skeptical; peaked at 21.1% in 2015, fell to 2.6% in 2022.
Danish royal family
Danish royal family (den kongelige familie): the Royal House of Denmark, over 1,000 years old, traced to Gorm the Old. Since 14 January 2024 headed by King Frederik X and Queen Mary after Margrethe II's abdication; heir Crown Prince Christian.
Danish slave trade prohibition decree
The Danish slave trade prohibition decree was a 1792 royal ordinance by King Christian VII, making Denmark-Norway the first European state to abolish its slave trade, effective 1803.
Danish Social Liberal Party
Radikale Venstre (Danish Social Liberal Party, letter B) is Denmark's social-liberal party, founded 21 May 1905 from a split in Venstrereformpartiet; governed 1909–10 and 1913–20, sits with Renew Europe, and in 2026 joined the Frederiksen coalition with 10 Folketing seats.
Danish Unitary State
Danish Unitary State (Danmarks Rige): the unitary Kingdom of Denmark under the 1849 constitution, with central government, 5 regions, 98 municipalities, and the devolved autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
Danish West India and Guinea Company
The Danish West India and Guinea Company was a Danish trading company, chartered in 1671 and dissolved in 1754, that administered the Danish West Indies and Gold Coast forts.
Danish West Indies
Danish West Indies (Dansk Vestindien), Denmark's Caribbean colony of St. Thomas, St. Jan and St. Croix from 1672 to 1917; sugar and slavery economy, abolished 1848; sold to the USA for $25 million in gold, becoming the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Danishmend Gazi
Danishmend Gazi (دانشمند غازی) was a Turkmen emir who took Sivas after the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 and founded the Danishmendid emirate of Sivas–Malatya.
Danishmendids
The Danishmendids (دانشمندیان) were a Turkmen dynasty founded by Danishmend Gazi after Manzikert (1071) that ruled the Sivas–Malatya region of Anatolia until the Seljuks absorbed it in 1178.