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The Swedish government was prepared to dissolve the union, provided the Norwegian people agreed to it in a referendum. The question presented to the voters (only men had suffrage in Norway at the time) was whether they approved of the "already completed dissolution of the union" ("den stedfundne Opløsning af Unionen"). The wording was ...
Haakon VII of Norway, known as Prince Carl of Denmark until 1905, he was the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution. Thomas Heftye, Norwegian military officer, engineer, sports official and politician. Gunnar Heiberg, a Norwegian poet, playwright, journalist and theater critic. Frederik Hilfling-Rasmussen, Danish-born Norwegian ...
1905 is the year when Norway regained its independence after the dissolution of the Union between Sweden and Norway.For the first time since 1397 Norway had a national king, after 500 years of political unions with other Scandinavia countries — the Kalmar Union until 1532, then the united kingdoms of Denmark-Norway until 1814, and finally a personal union with Sweden until 1905.
The Union Dissolution Day, observed in Norway on 7 June (though not a public holiday), [1] is marked in remembrance of the Norwegian parliament's 1905 declaration of dissolution of the union with Sweden, a personal union which had existed since 1814.
Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway (Swedish: Svensk-norska unionen; Norwegian: Den svensk-norske union(en)), officially the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and known as the United Kingdoms, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905.
On 7 June 1905 the Storting approved the dissolution of the union with Sweden; as a result, Swedish King Oscar II abdicated as King of Norway. He refused the reconciliation offer to allow a Swedish prince to take the Norwegian throne. [2] The Storting thus turned to the Danish Prince Carl.
In March 1905, Michelsen replaced Francis Hagerup as Prime Minister, and immediately became the leader of the movement towards dissolution of the union (Unionsoppløsningen i 1905). [5] The formal basis for the dissolution was King Oscar II's refusal to accept the Norwegian consular laws (Konsulatsaken).
King Oscar II War flag of Sweden and Norway, 1815–1844 Flag of Sweden, 1844–1905 Flag of Norway, 1844–98 Swedish and Norwegian flags in 1899, after the removal of the union badge from the merchant flag of Norway The peace monument of Karlstad was erected on the city square in 1955, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the dissolution of ...