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The King summon the 1655 Riksdag and introduces a Reduction (Sweden) of a quarter of all lands granted to the nobility from the crown since 1632. [1] Deluge (history) 23 August - Battle of Sobota; 16 September - Battle of Żarnów; September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki; 3 October - Battle of Wojnicz
When the Riksdag was not in session, the council of the realm, which functioned as the "government" at the time, controlled Sweden. [2] When the Riksdag convened it could issue punishments against members of the council if they deviated from the Riksdag's wishes. [2] The Riksdag's functioning began to resemble that of a parliamentary system.
Charles was born in the Stockholm Palace Tre Kronor in November 1655. His father, Charles X of Sweden, had left Sweden in July that year to fight in the war against Poland. After several years of warfare, the king returned in the winter of 1659, gathered his family and the Riksdag of the Estates in Gothenburg. Here he beheld his four-year-old ...
The King's absolute power was confirmed when the Riksdag of the Estates in 1693 officially proclaimed that the king was the sole ruler of Sweden. In 1719, the Riksdag elected Ulrika Eleonora as heir in place of her older sister's son, and Ulrika Eleonora accepted a new constitution restoring the powers of the Riksdag.
The Swedish word riksdag, in definite form riksdagen, is a general term for "parliament" or "assembly", but it is typically only used for Sweden's legislature and certain related institutions. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In addition to Sweden's parliament, it is also used for the Parliament of Finland and the Estonian Riigikogu , as well as the ...
Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (15 October 1622 – 26 April 1686) [1] was a Swedish statesman and military man. He became a member of the Swedish Privy Council in 1647 and came to be the holder of three of the five offices counted as the Great Officers of the Realm, namely Lord High Treasurer, Lord High Chancellor and Lord High Steward.
Whilst in every other European country except the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and England the ancient popular representation by estates was about to disappear altogether, in Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus it grew into an integral portion of the Constitution of Sweden. The Riksdag Ordinance of 1617 first converted a turbulent and haphazard ...
His advancements in warfare helped make Sweden the dominant Baltic power for the next hundred years (see Swedish Empire). He is also the only Swedish monarch to be styled "the Great". This decision was made by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates in 1634, making him officially called Gustavus Adolphus the Great (Gustavus Adolphus Magnus).