Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Besides internal changes within Norway, a key factor that allowed Norway to break from Sweden was the emerging Swedish social democratic movement. In the early years of the 20th century, the head of the Swedish Social Democrats, Hjalmar Branting, led his party in opposing a war to keep Norway united with Sweden. When the crisis of 1905 occurred ...
Sweden regains Swedish Pomerania Sweden integrates the Continental System. Gunboat War (1807–1814) Denmark–Norway United Kingdom: Defeat. Treaty of Kiel; Dissolution of Denmark-Norway; Dano-Swedish War (1808–09) (1808–1809) Denmark–Norway France Sweden United Kingdom: Stalemate. Return to Status quo ante bellum; Jørgen Jørgensen's ...
The Swedish–Norwegian War (1099–1101), otherwise known as Inge the Elder's war against Magnus Barefoot, [1] was a war between Sweden and Norway. It regarded the Norwegian claim to all lands west of the Göta River.
Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway (Swedish: Svensk-norska unionen; Norwegian: Den svensk-norske union(en)), officially the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and known as the United Kingdoms, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch and common foreign policy that lasted from 1814 until its peaceful dissolution in 1905.
Sweden Denmark-Norway Free City of Lübeck Polish–Lithuanian Union [note 1] Swedish victory against Poland-Lithuania Dano-Norwegian victory against Sweden Livonian War (1558–1583) [67] Location: Sweden. Livonian Confederation Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (before 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian union) Denmark–Norway. Kingdom of Sweden ...
The First Swedish–Norwegian union (Swedish: Den första svensk-norska unionen. Norwegian: Den første svensk-norske union(en)), was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden (which included large parts of today's Finland) and Norway together with Norway's overseas colonies (including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the northern isles of Orkney and Shetland) [1] [2].The ...
Despite lack of training, Denmark–Norway won and Sweden abandoned its claims to the land between Tysfjorden and Varangerfjord. With the Danish participation in the Thirty Years' War in 1618–48, a new conscription system was created in which the country was subdivided into 6,000 legd , each required to support one soldier. [ 51 ]