A Brief Time Line of Major Events in Swedish History
A brief timeline of Swedish history from 1397 to present day.
1397:Union of kalmar unites Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Erik of Pomerania becomes regent.
1434:Swedish peasants and miners rebel against Erik.
1439:Erik was deposed and replaced by his nephew Christopher.
1448:Karl Knuttson is chosen as king and Sweden separates from Denmark and Norway.
1517:A power struggle between regent Sture the Younger and the archbishop of Uppsala broke into civil war.
1520:Denmark intervened and Sture was killed, but his widow continued the fight. On 4 November Christian II was crowned. Trolle tried them for heresy on the grounds they ignored the authority of the church. 82 people were executed in the bloodbath of Stockholm.
1521:Swedes led by Gustavus Vasa rebel.
1523:Gustavus becomes king of Sweden.
1536:Gustavus allows the church to adopt certain Lutheran practices such as marriage of the clergy.
1560:Gustavus dies and is replaced by Eric XIV.
1561:Sweden take Tallinn and part of Estonia.
1563:Eric’s brother John leads a rebellion.
1569:John becomes King John III.
1587:John’s son Sigismund gets elected king of Poland.
1592:Sigismund becomes King of Sweden.
1599:Sigismund is desposed.
1604:Duke Charles becomes King Charles IX
1613:Gustavus II Adolphus becomes King of Sweden.
1629:Sweden gains Riga and part of Latvia from Poland.
1630:Sweden intervenes in the Thirty Years War.
1631:Gustavus wins a great victory at Breitenfelt.
1632:Gustavus is killed in the battle of Lutzen.
1648:Thirty Years War ends.
1655:King Charles X Gustavus invades Poland and conquers most of their country.
1697:Charles XII becomes King of Sweden.
1700:Denmark, Poland, and Russia attack Sweden in what becomes known as the Great Northern War. Charles XII leads an army to Zealand in Denmark. As a result Denmark quickly capitulated. Afterwards the Swedes crushed the Russians at the battle of Narva in Estonia.
1709:Charles attacks the Russians at Poltava and was routed.
1710:Russians capture Tallinn, Riga, Viipuri from the Swedes.
1720:Sweden makes peace with Denmark.
1721:By the Treaty of Nystad, Sweden was force to give up the Baltic Provinces and part of Finland to Russia.
1808:Russia invades Finland and quickly overruns it.
1809:Peace is made with Russia and Finland is lost forever.
1812:Charles John forms an alliance with Russia against Napoleon.
1813:Sweden joins the war against Napoleon.
1814:Denmark surrenders Norway to Sweden.
1842:Universal primary education is introduced in Sweden.
1856:The first railway in Sweden is built.
1905:Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
1921:Universal Suffarage was introduced.
1986:The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated.
1995:Sweden joins the EU.
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