Gustav I defeated the Danes & also got Sweden out from under the thumb of this league
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Glitz and glamour at Sweden's Nobel banquet - The Local  Dec 11, 2015 ... The Local uses cookies.More info.Got it! Menu. Home; Categories .... Top Swedish artists Seinabo Sey, Anna Ternheim and The Gustaf Sjkvist Chamber Choir performed in the city hall, which was decked out for the occasions with flowers ... The Nobel laureates also gave their traditional dinner speeches...
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Kalmar Union - Wikipedia  The Kalmar Union or Union of Kalmaris was a personal union that joined under a single ... On 2 February the next year (1388), she was also recognized as regent of ... Their common enemy was the Hanseatic League and the growing German ... After Danish and Swedish troops in 1389 defeated the Swedish king, Albert of...
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Sweden honours 2015 Nobel Prize winners - The Local  Dec 10, 2015 ... ... his medal by King Carl XVI Gustaf and was also given the chance to sit ... READ ALSO: Six things to know about Sweden's poshest dinner ... prize being handed out, with this December's programme including ... The high-profile events got under way less than a month after Sweden raised its terror threat...
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JBoard.tv  View topic - Monday, April 21, 2014 Game Recap ...  I got 44 or 45 out of 50 on the latest online test, and I watch the show every day ... Bamaman wrote: I had no idea what the Hanseatic League was, what it did .... #4174, aired 2002-10-24 KINGS NAMED GUSTAV $1000: Gustav I defeated the Danes & also got Sweden out from under the thumb of this league
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Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia  The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It was ... Led by Bavaria, these states formed the Catholic League to expel Frederick in support of ... Sweden, at the time a major military power, soon intervened in 1630 under the ... The war also bankrupted most of the combatant powers.
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Gustavus I facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Gustavus I Eriksson (1496-1560), first king of modern Sweden, reigned from 1523 to 1560. ... Riksdag (Diet) met at Strngns. On June 6 it elected Gustavus Vasa king. ... Gustavus's achievements in advancing his country culturally, economically, ... Michael Roberts, The Early Vasas:A History of Sweden, 1523-1611 (1968).
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1814: Denmark lost Norway but gained democracy | ScienceNordic  May 19, 2014 ... When Denmark lost Norway in 1814 it set off a chain reaction that would later lead ... Losing Norway directly results in the Danish kingdom's centre of power ... analyses the geopolitical consequences for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ... VI of Denmark had backed Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Franco-Swedish War - Wikipedia  The Franco-Swedish War or Pomeranian War was the first involvement by Sweden in the Napoleonic Wars. The country joined the Third Coalition in an effort to defeat France under Napoleon Bonaparte. Contents. [hide]. 1 Background; 2 The war. 2.1 The offensive against Hanover; 2.2 The Fourth Coalition; 2.3 Franco-Russian ... Russia also promised Sweden that 40,000 men would come to the aid of the...
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Battle of Poltava - Revolvy  The Battle of Poltava ( Swedish : Slaget vid Poltava ; Russian :   ... the beginning of Sweden 's decline as a Great Power , as the Tsardom of Russia took its place ... The battle also bears major importance in Ukrainian national history, ... Tsar of Russia , defeats Charles XII of Sweden , thus effectively ending...
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As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, this country lost Norway to ...  Jul 6, 2016 ... As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, this country lost Norway to Sweden ... This nephew of Napoleon was nicknamed Napoleon the Little # Quiz...
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Dark lands: the grim truth behind the 'Scandinavian miracle' | World ...  Jan 27, 2014 ... Life here is pretty comfortable, more so for indigenous families than for immigrants .... I pointed out that Sweden was one of the most bloodthirsty nations on earth ... The myriad successes of the Nordic countries are no miracle, they were ... The claim that Denmark is the EU's largest oil exporter was based on...
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King's sexual proclivities confound even Swedes - Washington Times  Jun 13, 2011 ... The exploits of King Carl XVI Gustaf, traveling in a horse-drawn carriage with Queen Silvia, have plunged the existence of Sweden's...
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1792: King Assassinated during Masked Ball | History.info  May 9, 2016 ... 1792: King Assassinated during Masked Ball on History.info | The king ... On this day a dramatic assassination of Swedish King Gustav III took ... That way many reforms were introduced in the country, with the goal of ... The wound was serious, but the king did not die immediately, but only after 13 days.
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Year1011Norway - Norway Denmark Sweden  Sweden broke out of the Kalmar Union in 1521; however, Norway remained under Danish ... The Kalmar Union united the four scandinavian countries, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and ... On June 17, 1397 the Kalmar Union was formed.
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Once ruled by Germans, Danes, Swedes & Russians, it first gained ...  Jul 7, 2016 ... video icon  Sorghum is a major crop, the Zagwe dynasty once ruled it, Addis Ababa University # Quiz # Question. 0:29. FirstAmVideo. No views...
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The Great Northern War - History Learning Site  The Great Northern War was fought between Sweden'sCharles XII and a coalition ... The Great Northern War had a number of distinct phases: 1700 to 1706; 1707 to ... from 1697 to 1699 and included Russia, Denmark and Saxony-Poland. ... Peter the Great had made incursions into parts of the Baltic controlled by Sweden;...
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Hanseatic League - New World Encyclopedia  Visby functioned as the leading centre in the Baltic before the Hansa. ... The allied cities gained control over most of the salt-fish trade, especially the ... height of its power in the late 1300s, the merchants of the Hanseatic League succeeded ..... the German Hanse, 1157-1611: a study of their trade and commercial diplomacy.
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Gustav III | king of Sweden | Britannica.com  died March 29, 1792, Stockholm) king of Sweden (177192), who reasserted the royal ... Gustav succeeded in 1771 to a Swedish throne that had been weak since it was ... But in August 1772 he seized effective power of the government and ... and an aristocratic conspiracy succeeded when Gustav was shot by Captain...
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Scandinavia 1588-1648 by Sanderson Beck  In 1590 the Council persuaded Emperor Rudolf II to grant Kristian full power in ... In 1612 the Danes besieged lvsborg with 10,000 men and captured it. ... Sweden's King Karl IX died in October, and his son King Gustav Adolf ... Ferdinand II ratified it on June 7, ending Denmark's major participation in the Thirty Years' War.
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The Union's Last War: The Russian-Swedish war of 1808-09  After the decisive battle of Friedland on June 14, 1807, where Napoleon ... it was decided that Russia should take upon itself the task of forcing Sweden into the continental system. ... Finland, which was at the time, the eastern half of the Swedish empire. .... There he gained his first field experience during the Turkish wars.
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Gustav Vasa (King of Sweden) - Banknotes  Jan 22, 2010 ... Sweden did not become irrevocably a Lutheran country until 1544 at the earliest, and it was a ... In 1544, for instance, he induced the Diet to declare the monarchy hereditary rather than elective. ... Gustav was elected king on 6 June 1523, at the riksdag in Strngns. This date has later been celebrated as...