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King Gustaf V giving the Courtyard Speech. Rearmament was a special concern in Sweden because of the growing tensions in Europe.When Karl Staaff's government proposed a reduction in military spending and the cancellation of the order for the coastal defence ships that were later known as the Sverige-class coastal defence ship, more than 30,000 Swedish farmers marched to Stockholm to protest in ...
The Åland Islands are located in the northern Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. The population is Swedish-speaking, but after the 1809 Treaty of Fredrikshamn the islands were ceded to the Russian Empire together with a vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden, becoming the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire.
Map showing areas ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union; Porkkala was returned to Finland in 1956. The Karelian question or Karelian issue (Finnish: Karjala-kysymys, Swedish: Karelska frågan, Russian: Карельский вопрос) is a dispute in Finnish politics over whether to try to regain control over eastern Karelia and other territories ceded to the Soviet Union in the Winter War ...
Tott's first Russian war (1475―1476) [62] Location: Finland. Sweden: Grand Duchy of Moscow: Truce in December 1475 or early 1476 Second campaign to Livonia (1478) [63] Location: Unknown Sweden: Teutonic Order: Indecisive Swedish military failure; Tott's second Russian war (1479–1482) [64] Location: Finland. Sweden: Grand Duchy of Moscow
Kingdom of Sweden: Tsardom of Russia: Inconclusive: 1558–1582 Livonian War: Kingdom of Sweden Livonian Confederation Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Denmark–Norway Zaporozhian Cossacks Principality of Transylvania (after 1577) [12] Tsardom of Russia. Kingdom of Livonia. Swedish allied victory: 1590–1595 Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595 ...
As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden was established as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire. Other notable effects were the Swedish parliament 's adoption of a new constitution and the establishment of the House of Bernadotte , the new Swedish royal house , in 1818.
Relations between Finland and Russia have been conducted over many centuries, from wars between Sweden and Russia in the early 18th century, to the planned and realized creation and annexation of the Grand Duchy of Finland during Napoleonic times in the early 19th century, to the dissolution of the personal union between Russia and Finland after the forced abdication of Russia's last czar in ...
Party 1 Party 2 Result Finnish leaders Finnish losses (dead or missing) Head of State Chief of Defence Finnish Civil War (1918) White Guard Germany Sweden: Red Guards Russian SFSR: Government victory. Uprising suppressed