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This list records the monarchs of Sweden, from the late Viking Age to the present day. Sweden has continuously been a monarchy since the country's consolidation in the Viking Age and early Middle Ages, for over a thousand years. [1] The incumbent royal dynasty of Sweden is the House of Bernadotte, established on the throne in 1818.
Selassie would be restored to power in the East African Campaign of World War II after a period of exile in Bath, United Kingdom. [20] [21] Kurt Schuschnigg Austria: Chancellor Nazi Germany: 11 March 1938 Anschluss [22] Edvard Beneš Czechoslovakia: President Nazi Germany: 5 October 1938 German occupation of Czechoslovakia [23] Jan Syrový ...
Sweden. Finland. King of Sweden. Grand Prince of Finland. Finnish War and Coup of 1809: 1810 Ferdinand VII of Spain: Spanish Empire: King of Spain and the Indies: Forced to abdicate by Napoleon at the beginning of the Peninsular War, which also led to the Spanish American wars of independence in which Spain lost most of its colonies 1814 ...
This is a list of Swedish governments and rulers, from the end of the Kalmar Union until the breakthrough of parliamentarism. 1521-1523 : Regent Gustaf Eriksson Vasa (Continued as king) 1523-1560 : King Gustaf I of Sweden; 1560-1568 : King Eric XIV of Sweden; 1568-1592 : King John III of Sweden; 1592-1599 : King Sigismund of Sweden
King of England and Ireland King of Scotland England Scotland Ireland: 1688–1701† France: Chakdor Namgyal: King of Sikkim Sikkim: 1700–1707 Tibet: Charles XII: King of Sweden Sweden: 1709–1714 Ottoman Empire: Vakhtang VI: King of Kartli: Kingdom of Kartli: 1724–1737† Russian Empire: Theodore I: King of Corsica: Kingdom of Corsica ...
the kingdom of Sweden rose to the status of great power as the comparatively short-lived Swedish Empire due to the Thirty Years' War; the kingdom of Denmark-Norway; The House of Habsburg became the most influential royal dynasty in continental Europe by the 17th century, divided into the Spanish and Austrian branches. [citation needed]
This list includes defunct and extant monarchical dynasties of sovereign and non-sovereign statuses at the national and subnational levels. Monarchical polities each ruled by a single family—that is, a dynasty, although not explicitly styled as such, like the Golden Horde and the Qara Qoyunlu—are included.
With its own burghers in charge, Sweden's economic strength grew rapidly, and by 1544 Gustav controlled 60% of the farmlands in all of Sweden. Sweden now built the first modern army in Europe, supported by a sophisticated tax system and an efficient bureaucracy. [16] At the death of King Gustav I in 1560, he was succeeded by his oldest son Eric ...