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The Polish–Swedish union was a short-lived personal union between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Sweden between 1592 and 1599. It began when Sigismund III Vasa, elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, was crowned King of Sweden following the death of his father John III.
The Linköping Bloodbath (Swedish: Linköpings blodbad) on 20 March 1600 was the public execution by beheading of five Swedish nobles in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598–1599), which resulted in the de facto deposition of the Polish and Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa as king of Sweden.
Painting representing the Battle of Bråvalla, a legendary battle which supposedly took place in the 8th century, fought partly between the Svear and Götar. There were organized political structures in Sweden before the kingdom was unified; based on archaelogical evidence, early tribal societies are believed to have transitioned into organized chiefdoms in the first few centuries AD, perhaps ...
The modern Swedish monarchy considers Eric the Victorious to have been the first King of Sweden. [2] In medieval Swedish lists of kings, the figure generally represented as the first king of Sweden is Olof Skötkonung, [3] the first Christian king of Sweden and the first Swedish king to mint coins.
The Stockholm Bloodbath was a consequence of conflict between Swedish pro-unionists (in favour of the Kalmar Union, then dominated by Denmark) and anti-unionists (supporters of Swedish independence), and also between the anti-unionists and the Danish aristocracy, which in other aspects was opposed to King Christian. [4]
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. 1792–1809 1778–1837: Charles XIV John Bernadotte King of Sweden r ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors. Warren ...
In some cases, kings have personally murdered people. In 1568, King Eric XIV beat his secretary Martin Olai Helsingius to death with a stove poker. Martin had allegedly advised the king against pardoning his former secretary Jöran Persson, [15] who was a very