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500 The monument of Ale's Stones is built in Sweden.
829 Ansgar is appointed missionary to Sweden by Louis the Pious, at the request of the Swedish king Björn at Hauge.
829 Saint Ansgar introduced Christianity to Sweden.
830 Christian missionary Ansgar visits Birka, trade city of the Swedes.
831 Saint Ansgar founds the first church in Sweden, at Birka
995 (Erik Segersäll) is succeeded by (Olof Skötkonung), the first baptized ruler of Sweden. See Swedish monarchs.
1008 Olof, king of Sweden, is baptized by saint Sigfrid.
1019 A treaty between Sweden and Norway is conducted at Kungälv.
1050 Died
1079 Halsten and Ingold I succeed Haakon the Red in Sweden.
1100 The cities of Kalmar, Kungälv, and Varberg, Sweden are chartered.
1125 Magnus the Strong becomes ruler of Sweden.
1150 Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges
1154 Sweden's King Eric introduces Christianity to Finland (see History of Finland).
1164 Uppsala is recognized as the seat of the Swedish metropolitan.
1185 Founding of Katedralskolan in Lund, Sweden. The school is the oldest in northern Europe, and one of the oldest in Europe.
1249 Swedish statesman Birger Jarl subjugates the province of Tavastia in Finland, laying the foundations for Sweden's expansionism.
1252 The Swedish city of Stockholm is founded by Birger Jarl.
1254 The Swedish city of Malmö is founded.
1293 Torkel Knutsson leads Sweden in beginning the Third Swedish Crusade against unchristianized Finnish Karelia.
1319 Magnus VII ascends the throne of Norway and unites the country with Sweden.
1323 The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) is signed, regulating the border for the first time
1335 Slavery abolished in Sweden
1360 King Valdemar Atterdag of Denmark seizes Scania (from 1658 a Swedish province).
1389 Margaret I defeats Albert in battle, thus becoming ruler of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
1397 The Kalmar Union unifies Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
1441 Christopher of Bavaria succeeds Karl Knutsson Borde as king of Sweden.
1448 The Regency period of Sweden ends with the election of Karl Knutsson Bonde as King Charles VIII of Sweden.
1456 The university of Greifswald, later Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe (also for a period the oldest in Sweden, and Prussia)
1471 Battle of Brunkeberg in Stockholm. The forces of Regent of Sweden Sten Sture the Elder with help of farmers and miners repel an attack by Christian I, King of Denmark.
1495 Russia invades Sweden through Karelia, but the Russian troops are beaten back at Vyborg.
1515 Sweden declared independen
1520 King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde.
1520 Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of Christian II of Denmark results in the execution of around 100 persons (mostly nobility and clergy involved in the previous Swedish war effort).
1523 Gustav Vasa becomes King of Sweden, establishing finally its full independence from Denmark.
1527 Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden.
1528 Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden.
1535 Combined Swedish and Danish fleets defeat the Hanseatic navy.
1555 Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland.
1561 Sweden conquers Livonia (modern Estonia).
1608 Swedish troops enter Moscow.
1610 Poland captures Moscow, just to lose it again to Russian and Swedish troops.
1610 Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow.
1611 Denmark attacks Sweden,
1613 King James I of England successfully mediates the Peace of Knäred treaty between Denmark and Sweden.
1617 Peace is reached between Russia and Sweden with the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War. Sweden gains Ingermanland and Karelia.
1617 Peace is reached between Russia and Sweden with the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War. Sweden gains Ingermanland and Karelia.
1621 Riga falls under rule of Sweden
1623 Johannes Rudbeck founds Rudbeckianska Gymnasiet, first gymnasium in Sweden.
1630 Swedish warships depart from Stockholm to Germany.
1632 Christina becomes queen of Sweden; five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern country.
1632 Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1632 Battle of Lützen, death of king of Sweden Gustav II Adolf.
1638 Swedish arrive on the ships ''Kalmare Nyckel'' and ''Fågel Grip'' to America to establish first settlement in Delaware, called New Sweden.
1641 The Swedish city of Falun was founded by Queen Kristina
1642 Bro/broo in Sweden is granted the city rights for the second time and takes the name Kristinehamn.
1645 Treaty of Brömsebro was signed between Sweden and Denmark-Norway ceding Jemtland, Herjedalen, Gotland and Ösel (Saaremaa) to Sweden, and holding the province of Halland for a period of 30 years as a guarantee.
1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1648 The west bank of Prague (including the Prague Castle) occupied and looted by Swedish armies.
1654 Charles X succeeds his cousin Christina to the Swedish throne. After her abdication on June 5, Christina now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.
1658 The peace between Sweden and Denmark was concluded in Roskilde with Treaty of Roskilde.
1660 Sweden recovers its southern provinces from Denmark.
1661 First modern bank notes issued in Stockholm, Sweden
1666 Lund University founded in Lund, Sweden.
1677 Danish ships clash with Swedish ships under Niels Juel between Fehmarn and Warnemünde - Danish defeat the Swedish and capture number of ships.
1677 Danish ships clash with Swedish ships under Niels Juel between Fehmarn and Warnemünde - Danish defeat the Swedish and capture number of ships.
1680 The Swedish city Karlskrona founded as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.
1700 The Great Northern War begins with Russia, Denmark and Saxony/Poland making a coordinated attack on Sweden (to 1721).
1709 June 28 (Old Style)- Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe(see below)
1718 After the death of Charles XII on November 30, Ulrika Eleonora becomes Queen of Sweden.
1719 Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused part of the copper mine
1720 Sweden and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring pea
1753 Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar
1762 The Treaty of Hamburg takes Sweden out of the war against Prussia.
1772 The coup d'etat by King Gustav III is completed by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and making him an enlightened despot.
1780 League of Armed Neutrality alliance formed between Denmark, Sweden, and Russia.
1790 Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
1794 Coffee forbidden by royal decree in Sweden
1795 Sweden becomes the first monarchy to recognize the French Republic.
1800 Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
1802 War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
1805 Sweden declares war on France
1808 The fortress of Sveaborg is lost by Sweden to Russia, during the Finnish War.
1808 Russia issues an ultimatum to Sweden, to join France, Denmark and Russia and attacks Finland.
1808 Swedish troops evacuate Finland. Tsar Alexander I of Russia proclaims Finland a part of Russia.
1809 Sweden promulgates a new Instrument of Government, which restores political power to the Riksdag of the Estates after authoritarian rule since 1772.
1809 Peace of Hamina - Peace between Russia and Sweden in the Finnish War. The territory to become the Grand Duchy of Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1810 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1810 A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
1812 Coffee is banned in Sweden.
1814 Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in exchange for west Pomerania, as part of the Treaty of Kiel.
1818 Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1822 Coffee ban in Sweden abolished.
1844 Swedish chemistry professor Gustaf Erik Pasch invents the safety match.
1854 Stockholm, Wisconsin is founded by immigrants from Karlskoga, Sweden (cf 1252).
1857 Sweden lifts its ban on Danish language and Danish books in the formerly Danish provinces of Blekinge, Halland and Scania - 214 respectively 199 years after the annexion.
1859 Charles XV succeeds his father Oscar I King of Sweden and Norway (as Charles IV).
1860 Augustana College is founded in Rock Island, Illinois, United States by Swedish immigrants.
1866 In Sweden the Riksdag of the Estates is replaced by an elected two chamber assembly, the Riksdag.
1876 Lars Magnus Ericsson and Carl Johan Andersson start a small mechanical workshop in Stockholm, Sweden, dealing with telegraphy equipment, which grows into the world-wide company Ericsson.
1905 The Norwegian Parliament declares the union with Sweden dissolved, thus Norway achieves its indepen
1905 Norway holds referendum in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden.
1905 Sweden agreed to the repeal of the union with Norway.
1907 Train robbery in Sweden ''(first and only as of 2004)''
1910 Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander
1912 The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.
1918 December 1 — New voting laws in Sweden. Votes no longer dependent on taxable assets. One person, one vote.
1919 The Åland Islands vote for a return to Swedish rule in a referendum.
1920 World's first peaceful establishment of a social democratic government takes place in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting takes over when Nils Edén resigns.
1921 Death penalty abolished in Sweden
1924 Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean (to his father in Sweden).
1928 Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the old warrior king.
1931 Austria, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden and USA recognize the Spanish Republic
1940 In Sweden, a time bomb destroys the office of ''Norrskenflamman'' newspaper of Swedish communists - 5 dead
1941 In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad forms the Hasselblad camera company.
1941 Sweden's low temperature record with -53° C was set in a village within Vilhelmina Municipality.
1944 In Sweden, the law of 1864 that criminalizes homosexuality is abolished.
1944 In Sweden, Erik Wallenberg and Ruben Rausing invent a way to package milk in paper and start the company Tetra Pak.
1944 Jüri Uluots, prime minister in capacity of president of Estonia, escapes to Sweden
1946 Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations
1950 British submarine ''Truculent'' collides with a Swedish oil tanker in River Thames - 64 dead.
1956 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden. (All other events held in November in Melbourne, Australia.)
1960 April 4 — The first 3 female priests are ordained in Sweden.
1967 H-Day in Sweden. At 5:00 AM local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffi
1969 In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Labour Party leader, replacing Tage Erlander as prime minister on October 14.
1972 Prime minister of Sweden, Olof Palme compares the American bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres. The US breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
1973 Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.
1974 A new Instrument of Government is promulgated, making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
1978 Sweden becomes the first nation to ban aerosol sprays that are thought to damage earth's protective ozone layer.
1984 The Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 for Sweden, with the song ''Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley''.
1989 England holds Sweden to a 0-0 draw in Sweden, qualifying for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The game became famous after Terry Butcher sustained a deep cut to his forehead early in the game. He received stitches but played on the entire game. By the end of the game, the front of Butcher's white shirt and shorts where almost entirely covered in blood.
1992 A tram-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden; 13 are killed and several injured.
1992 Denmark beats Germany 2-0 to win Euro 92 at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1992 The last blast is fired at the Falu Copper Mine in Falun, Sweden, after a millennium of continuous operation.
1994 Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
1995 Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union.
1995 Swedish band Rednex's techno version of Cotton Eyed Joe goes #1 in the UK, and becomes a standard DJ song worldwide, much like YMCA and Macarena.
1996 Swede Göran Kropp reaches the Mount Everest summit alone without oxygen, after having bicycled there from Sweden.
1998 In Göteborg, Sweden, two arsonists burn down a disco of a local Macedonian Society - 63 dead, over 200 injured, most of them children of refugees.
2003 Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the next day.
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