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This was the outcome of the Russo-Swedish War from 1741 to 1743 where the Russian Empress made the imposition of her relative Adolf Frederick as the heir to the Swedish Throne, to succeed Frederick I who lacked legitimate issue, as a peace condition.
* February 12 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden ( b. 1710 )
** Upon his death, Frederick I of Sweden is succeeded as king by Adolf Frederick.
* May 14 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden ( d. 1771 )
The conquerors – King Frederick II, Duke Adolf, and Duke John II the Elder – divided Dithmarschen into two parts: the south became a part of Holstein in personal union with Denmark while the north came into the possession of the other Duke of Holstein.
He was the second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick II of Prussia.
Reportedly he was not very close to his mother ; the Queen preferred her youngest children, Sophie Albertine and Frederick Adolf.
Adolf Frederick or Adolph Frederick (, ; Gottorp, 14 May 1710 – Stockholm, 12 February 1771 ) was King of Sweden from 1751 until his death.
The rule of the Riksdag was not to prevail again until after World War I, when universal and equal suffrage was also instated ( although under Adolf Frederick a minor number of women have had the vote ).
On his mother's side, Adolf Frederick descended from king Gustav I of Sweden and from Christina Magdalena, a sister of Charles X of Sweden.
Adolf Frederick was also a 13th-generation descendant of Erik V of Denmark ; a 13th-generation descendant of Sophia of Denmark and Valdemar I of Sweden ; and an 11th-generation descendant of Euphemia of Sweden, Duchess of Mecklenburg and her husband the duke Albrecht.
From 1727 to 1750 prince Adolf Frederick was prince-bishop of Lübeck ( which meant the rulership of a fief around and including Eutin ), and administrator of Holstein-Kiel during the minority of his nephew, Duke Charles Peter Ulrich, afterwards Peter III of Russia.
During his twenty-year reign Adolf Frederick was little more than a figurehead, the real power being lodged in the hands of the Parliament of Sweden, often distracted by party strife.
# Frederick Adolf ( 1750 – 1803 )
simple: Adolf Frederick of Sweden
A little later Adolf intervened in war-torn Thuringia, where fighting had erupted between Landgrave Albert the Degenerate and his sons Frederick and Dietrich IV of Lusatia.
The report, compiled by Frederick L. Coolidge and Daniel L. Segal ( with the assistance of a South Korean psychiatrist considered an expert on Kim Jong-il's behavior ), concluded that the " big six " group of personality disorders shared by dictators Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Saddam Hussein ( sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal ) were also shared by Kim Jong-il — coinciding primarily with the profile of Saddam Hussein.
Up until Adolf Frederick, the motto for every regent had been in Latin and Swedish ( or, as in the case of Gustav II Adolf, in German ).
Adolf, the third son of Duke and King Frederick I and the second youngest half-brother of King Christian III, founded the dynastic branch called House of Holstein-Gottorp, which is a cadet branch of the then royal Danish House of Oldenburg.

Adolf and King
However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.
Beginning in 1278, when Magnus III of Sweden ascended to the throne, a reference to Gothic origins was included in the title of the King of Sweden: In 1973, with the death of King Gustaf VI Adolf, the title was changed to simply " King of Sweden.
Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley received their awards that night from King Gustaf VI Adolf and then adjourned for a great banquet in their honor.
At the same time, Charles XIII is elected to succeed Gustav IV Adolf as King of Sweden.
In the 1632 series of alternate history novels, the Union of Kalmar is reunited by Gustav Adolf, King of Sweden, in 1634.
From this line came the House of Limburg-Stirum and also Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg, German King Adolf ’ s wife.
* 1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d ' état.
Also during 1937, King visited Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, becoming the only North American head of government to do so.
** King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates and is later exiled.
On the same day, Duke Charles ( uncle of the deposed king Gustav IV Adolf ) is elected King under the name Charles XIII.
** King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden ( b. 1882 )
* November 11 – King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden ( d. 1973 )
* March 16 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm ; he lives until March 29, and is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden | Gustav Adolf of Sweden is killed in the Battle of Lützen ( 1632 ) | Battle of Lützen.
* April 24 – Gustav, Count of Vasaborg, illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus ( Gustav II Adolf ) and his mistress Margareta Slots ( d. 1653 )
* Metropolitan Opera, New York: 12 November 1886, conducted by Anton Seidl, with Therese Herbert-Förster ( the wife of Victor Herbert ) in the title role, Carl Zobel as Radamès, Marianne Brandt as Amneris, Adolf Robinson as Amonasro, Emil Fischer as Ramfis, and Georg Sieglitz as the King.
* July 2 – King Adolf of Germany ( b. c. 1255 )
* Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg, King of the Romans ( approximate date ; d. 1298 )
Walram's son and successor Adolf would later became King of Germany from 1292 until 1298.
* George Barbier as King Adolf XV

Adolf and Sweden
In Dresden on 18 June 1853 Albert married Princess Carola, daughter of Gustav, Prince of Vasa and granddaughter of Gustav IV Adolf, the second to last king of Sweden of the House of Holstein-Gottorp.
# REDIRECT Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
* 1778 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden ( d. 1837 )
* March 13 – A military coup ousts Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden ; he is confined in Gripsholm Castle.
* October 19 – Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden marries Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
* February 7 – Gustav IV Adolf, ex-King of Sweden ( b. 1778 )
* March – Thirty Years ' War – Gustav Adolf of Sweden invades Bavaria with his army.
Gustav Adolf of Sweden makes landfall in Pomerania.
** Thirty Years ' War: Leading an army of 13. 000, king Gustav Adolf of Sweden enter the Thirty Years ' War on protestant side by making landfall at Peenemünde, Pomerania.
Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, victorious in the Battle of Breitenfeld ( 1631 ) | Battle of Breitenfeld.
* April 13 – Thirty Years ' War: Gustav Adolf of Sweden defeats an imperial garrison at the city of Frankfurt an der Oder.
Shocked by the massacre, many protestant states in the Holy Roman Empire decide to ally with Gustav Adolf of Sweden and support his ongoing invasion.

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