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Medal for King Charles X Gustav and Queen Hedwig Eleanor Charles X Gustav was crowned on 7 June 1654, the day after his cousin Christina abdicated. [ 5 ] The beginning of Charles X's reign concentrated on the healing of domestic discords and on the rallying of all the forces of the nation round his standard for a new policy of conquest.
King Gustav IV Adolph of Sweden was seized by rebels at Stockholm Palace on 13 March 1809, forcing him to abdicate two weeks later. Napoleon 's first abdication, signed at the Palace of Fontainebleau on 4 April 1814
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, abdicated 1814, reinstated and deposed 1815. Louis XVIII, King of France, deposed 1815, reinstated 1815. Napoleon II, Emperor of the French, deposed 1815. Charles X, King of France, abdicated 1830. Louis XIX, King of France (pretender), abdicated 1830. Henri V, King of France (pretender), deposed 1830.
Christina abdicated her throne on 6 June 1654 in favor of Charles Gustav. [82] During the abdication ceremony at Uppsala Castle, Christina wore her regalia, which were ceremonially removed from her, one by one. Per Brahe, who was supposed to remove the crown, did not move, so she had to take the crown off herself.
The Swedish people feared that the external, artificial greatness of their country might be purchased with the loss of their civil and political liberties. The Swedish people looked to a new king to address the problem of too much power vested in the nobility. [4] Charles X Gustav was a strong arbiter between the people and the nobility.
A. Abbas II of Egypt; Abd al-Hafid of Morocco; Abdul Jalil Shah III of Johor; Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe; Æthelred of Mercia; Agustín de Iturbide
The House of Vasa or Wasa [2] (Swedish: Vasaätten, Polish: Wazowie, Lithuanian: Vazos) was an early modern royal house founded in 1523 in Sweden.Its members ruled the Kingdom of Sweden from 1523 to 1654 and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 to 1668; its agnatic line became extinct with the death of King John II Casimir of Poland in 1672.
Gustav III King of Sweden r. 1771–1792 1746–1792: Charles XIII King of Sweden r. 1809–1818 King of Norway r. 1814–1818 1748–1818: William Duke of Oldenburg r. 1785–1823 1754–1823: Peter I Grand Duke of Oldenburg r. 1823–1829 1755–1829: Paul I Emperor of Russia r. 1796–1801 1754–1801: Gustav IV Adolf King of Sweden r. 1792 ...