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This is a timeline of Swedish history , comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Sweden and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sweden . See also the list of Swedish monarchs and list of Prime Ministers of Sweden .
1st century
2nd century
Year
Date
Event
100
The Iron Age settlement at Uppåkra is founded.
6th century
8th century
9th century
10th century
11th century
12th century
13th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
Year
Date
Event
1520
The Stockholm bloodbath occurs at the order of Christian II of Denmark .
1523
Gustav Vasa liberates Stockholm, reasserting Sweden's independence from Denmark-Norway and initiating the monarchical rule of the House of Vasa .
1524
The Treaty of Malmö is signed. Denmark-Norway recognizes the independence of Sweden, while in return Sweden renounces its claims to Scania and Blekinge .
1526
The first Swedish translation of the New Testament is published.
1529
The Westrogothian Rebellion takes place.
1531
The Third Dalecarlian Rebellion , also knows as the Bell Rebellion (Klockupproret ) begins, and is suppressed two years later.
1535
War with Lübeck leads to the expulsion of the Hanseatic traders , who previously had a monopoly on foreign trade.
1540
The first full Swedish translation of the Bible, the Gustav Vasa Bible , is published.
1542
Nils Dacke starts a peasant uprising in Småland , which is defeated the following year.
1554
Border skirmishes between Sweden and Russia lead to the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War (1554-1557) .
1555
A Description of the Northern Peoples (Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus) by Olaus Magnus is published.
1561
Estonia becomes a Swedish dominion .
1567
The Sture Murders take place at the order of King Eric XIV .
1577
February 26
Eric XIV dies in imprisonment, most likely murdered.
1584
The city of Karlstad is founded.
1592
Poland and Sweden enter into a short-lived personal union following the crowning of Sigismund III Vasa as King of Sweden.
1598
A conflict between Duke Charles, later King Charles IX , and Sigismund , King of Sweden and Poland, leads to the outbreak of the War against Sigismund .
September 25
The Battle of Stångebro takes place.
1599
The War against Sigismund ends, resulting in the deposition of King Sigismund.
17th century
Year
Date
Event
1600
March 20
The Linköping Bloodbath takes place.
1610
The Ingrian War between Russia and Sweden begins.
1611
Denmark declares war on Sweden, initiating the Kalmar War .
1613
The Treaty of Knäred is signed, ending the Kalmar War. Sweden is obligated to pay a ransom of one million thaler for the return of the fortress of Älvsborg .
1614
The city of Kristianstad is founded.
1617
February 27
The Treaty of Stolbovo is signed, ending the Ingrian War. Russia cedes the province and fortress of Kexholm , southwestern Karelia and the province of Ingria to Sweden, laying the foundation for Sweden's rise as a Great Power .
1621
The city of Gothenburg is founded.
1628
August 10
The sinking of the Swedish warship Vasa .
1630
Sweden enters the Thirty Years' War .
1631
April 13
The Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder takes place.
September 7
The Battle of Breitenfeld takes place.
1632
November 6
The Battle of Lützen takes place. King Gustav II Adolf is killed in battle.
1638
The colony of New Sweden is established along the Delaware River in North America.
1648
The Thirty Years' War ends, with Sweden among the winners. The Peace of Westphalia grants Sweden the provinces of Western Pomerania , Wismar , and the bishoprics of Bremen-Verden .
1650
The colony of the Swedish Gold Coast is established on the Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana .
1654
Queen Christina abdicates her throne and converts to Roman Catholicism , creating a major scandal.
1658
February 26
Treaty of Roskilde . Denmark-Norway cedes the provinces of Blekinge , Bornholm , Bohuslän , Scania , Trøndelag and Halland to Sweden.
1663
The colony of the Swedish Gold Coast is seized by Denmark, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast .
1666
Lund University is founded.
1668
The Swedish National Bank (Sveriges Riksbank ) is founded.
1674
December 24
Sweden invades Brandenburg , triggering the Swedish-Brandenburg War .
1675
Denmark invades Scania, triggering the Scanian War .
1676
June 1
The Battle of Öland takes place.
August 17
The Battle of Halmstad takes place.
December 4
The Battle of Lund takes place.
1677
June 26
The Siege of Malmö takes place.
July 14
The Battle of Landskrona takes place.
1678
The Invasion of Rügen takes place.
1679
August 23
The Treaty of Fontainebleau is signed, restoring all Danish conquests during the Scanian War to Sweden.
1680
The city of Karlskrona is founded.
The Great Reduction of 1680 is enacted, returning to the Swedish Crown lands that had earlier been granted to the nobility.
1697
May 7
The castle of Tre Kronor burns down, destroying a significant portion of Sweden's national library and royal archives.
18th century
Year
Date
Event
1700
An alliance consisting of Denmark-Norway, Saxony , Poland and Russia declares war on Sweden, initiating the Great Northern War .
The Battle of Narva takes place.
1702
July 8
The Battle of Kliszów takes place.
1706
October 13
The Treaty of Altranstädt is signed, following Sweden's victorious invasion of Poland. King Augustus the Strong is forced to renounce his claims to the Polish throne and his alliance with Russia .
1708
January 1
Charles XII crosses the Vistula , initiating the Swedish invasion of Russia .
1709
June 27
The Battle of Poltava takes place. The Swedish army under Charles XII is destroyed by the Russian forces of Peter the Great , marking the beginning of Sweden's decline as a Great Power .
1710
February 28
The Battle of Helsingborg takes place. Denmark's last attempt to regain Scania fails.
1713
February 1
The Skirmish at Bender , a battle to remove Charles XII and the remnants of his army from the Ottoman Empire , takes place.
1718
November 30
Charles XII is killed at Frederikshald .
1719
The Treaties of Stockholm are signed, requiring Sweden to cede parts of Swedish Pomerania to Prussia and Bremen-Verden to Hanover.
1720
The Treaty of Frederiksborg is signed, requiring Sweden to cede Schleswig to Denmark-Norway.
1721
The Treaty of Nystad is signed, requiring Sweden to cede Estonia , Livonia and Ingria to Russia.
1731
The Swedish East India Company is founded.
1732
Carl Linnaeus departs on his Expedition to Lapland .
1735
The first edition of Carl Linnaeus' Systema Naturae is published.
1739
June 2
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is founded.
1741
August 23
The Battle of Villmanstrand takes place.
1742
Anders Celsius proposes the Celsius temperature scale .
1743
The Fourth Dalecarlian Rebellion breaks out.
1756
An attempted coup d'état by Queen Louisa Ulrika and a few devoted nobles to reinstate absolute monarchy in Sweden is exposed and subdued.
1757
Sweden enters the Seven Years' War .
1762
May 22
The Treaty of Hamburg is signed, concluding Sweden's involvement in the Seven Years' War.
1766
The Freedom of the Press Act is enacted, abolishing censorship and restricting limitations only to vocal opposition to the king or the Church of Sweden .
1768
The December Crisis (1768) fails to increase royal power.
1772
Absolute monarchy is reintroduced in Sweden through the Revolution of 1772 .
1773
Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovers oxygen .
The Royal Swedish Opera is founded.
1782
Sweden purchases the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy from France.
1786
March 20
The Swedish Academy is founded.
1788
Sweden declares war against Russia, beginning the Russo-Swedish War (1788-90) .
1790
The Treaty of Värälä is signed, concluding the Russo-Swedish War.
1792
March 16
King Gustav III is assassinated at a masked ball.
19th century
20th century
21st century
Year
Date
Event
2000
July 1
The Øresund Bridge is opened, creating a road and railway connection between Sweden and mainland Europe.
2003
Voters decide not to adopt the Euro as the country's official currency.
2009
May 1
Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2010
Military conscription is abolished in Sweden.
See also
Cities in Sweden
References
Further reading
Jacques Lacombe (author) [fr] (1762). Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire de Suede (in French). Paris: Jean-Thomas Herissant. ; ; ; CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link ) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link )
Jon Stefansson (1917). "Synchronistic Tables of Events in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway". Denmark and Sweden, with Iceland and Finland . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ;
Elisabeth Elgán; Irene Scobbie (2015). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Sweden (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4422-5071-0 . ;
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