Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Swedish Empire or the Age of Greatness (Swedish: stormaktstiden) [1] was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region.
Year Date Event 1700: 22 February: Alliance consisting of Denmark-Norway, Saxony, Poland and Russia declares war on Sweden, initiating Great Northern War: Battle of Narva: 1702: 8 July: Battle of Kliszów: 1706: 3 February: Battle of Fraustadt ends in slaughter of captured prisoners by victorious Swedish army 1706: 13 October
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Swedish Empire (1648–1718) Enlightenment. Age of Liberty ... Timeline of Swedish history;
August 18 (August 7 OS) – Peace of Travendal concluded between the Swedish Empire, Denmark-Norway and Holstein-Gottorp in Traventhal. On the same day, Augustus II, King of Poland, and Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, enter the war against Sweden. November 30 (November 19 OS; November 20 Swedish calendar) – Battle of Narva in Estonia.
Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; ... Print/export Download as PDF; ... Swedish Empire (1648–1718) Enlightenment.
Pages for logged out editors learn more. ... Years of the 17th century in the Swedish colonial empire. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects
At the beginning of that year Charles had concluded an alliance with Tsar Vasili IV of Russia against their common foe, the Polish king; but when, in 1610, Vasili was deposed by his own subjects and the whole tsardom seemed to be on the verge of dissolution, Sweden's policy towards Russia changed its character.
Russia, Saxony–Poland, and Denmark–Norway pooled their power in 1700 and attacked the Swedish Empire. Although the young Swedish King Charles XII (1682–1718; reigned 1697–1718) won spectacular victories in the early years of the Great Northern War , most notably in the stunning success against the Russians at the Battle of Narva (1700 ...