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.

* 1523 – Gustav Vasa is crowned king of Sweden.

* National Day of Sweden, marks the end of the Danish-ruled Kalmar Union and the day Gustav Vasa got elected king of Sweden ( Sweden )

Diverging interests ( especially the Swedish nobility's dissatisfaction over the dominant role played by Denmark and Holstein ) gave rise to a conflict that would hamper the union in several intervals from the 1430s until its breakup in 1523 when Gustav Vasa became king of Sweden.

While independence was being reclaimed, the election of King Gustav of the Vasa at Strängnäs on June 6, 1523, has been seen as a formal declaration of independence, and as the de facto end of a union that had lost all long-term support in Sweden.

The day Gustav Vasa was hailed as King ( he was not crowned until 1528 though ) would become, in 1983, the National Day of Sweden.

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor once again asked for help of Gustav I of Sweden, and The Kingdom of Poland ( 1385 – 1569 ) also began direct negotiations with Gustav, but nothing resulted because on September 29, 1560, Gustav I Vasa died.

While Swedish spelling was an entirely personal business in the Catholic Middle Ages, its gradual standardization ( known as Modern Swedish ) started in 1526 with the translation of the New testament of the Bible ( Gustav Vasa Bible ), as part of the Lutheran reformation.

When King Gustav Vasa finally besieged and conquered the city three years later, an event which ended the Kalmar Union and the Swedish Middle Ages, he noted every second building in the city was abandoned.

Gustav Vasa invited the clergyman Olaus Petri ( 1493 – 1552 ) to become the city secretary of Stockholm.

The collection dates back to the days of Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, and has since been expanded with works by artists such as Rembrandt, and Antoine Watteau, as well as constituting a main part of Sweden's art heritage, manifested in the works of Alexander Roslin, Anders Zorn, Johan Tobias Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson.

During a meeting on what is thought to be Beckholmen outside of djurgården, Christian swore that all acts against him would be forgotten and gave pardon to several named persons ( including Gustav Vasa who had escaped Denmark where he had been held hostage.

Gustav Vasa was a son of Erik Johansson, one of the victims of the executions.

* Wausa, Nebraska, named after Gustav Vasa, but with a slightly different spelling

* Helsinki, later the capital of Finland, is founded by Gustav Vasa.

* September 29 – Eric XIV becomes king of Sweden upon the death of his father Gustav Vasa.

* August 23 – Christian II of Denmark is deposed as king of Sweden and Gustav Vasa is elected regent.

* June 6 – Gustav Vasa is elected king of Sweden, finally establishing its full independence from Denmark, marking the end of the Kalmar Union.

Their relocation had started as part of an effort by Swedish king Gustav Vasa, to expand agriculture to these uninhabited parts of the country.

* January 13 – At Västerås, the estates of Sweden swear loyalty to king Gustav Vasa and to his heirs, ending the traditional electoral monarchy in Sweden.

Modern Sweden started out of the Kalmar Union formed in 1397 and by the unification of the country by King Gustav Vasa in the 16th century.

* 1496 – Gustav I of Sweden ( d. 1560 )

Gustav I of Sweden, born Gustav Eriksson of the Vasa noble family and later known as Gustav Vasa ( 12 May 1496 – 29 September 1560 ), was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death, previously self-recognised Protector of the Realm ( Rikshövitsman ) from 1521, during the ongoing Swedish War of Liberation against King Christian II of Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

Gustav Eriksson, a son of Cecilia Månsdotter Eka and Erik Johansson Vasa, was probably born in 1496.

Eric XIV was the son of Gustav I ( 1496 – 1560 ) and Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg ( 1513 – 35 ).

* Gustav I ( born 1496, reigned 1523 – 1560 )

Rebuilt after a fire in 1410, it was moved to Riddarholmen by King Gustav Vasa ( 1496 – 1560 ) in 1531.

The phenomenon quickly resulted in rumours of an omen of God's forthcoming revenge on King Gustav Vasa ( 1496 – 1560 ) for having introduced Protestantism during the 1520s and for being heavy-handed with his enemies allied with the Danish king.

* 1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.

* 1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d ' état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.

* 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d ' état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.

* 2010 – Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter ( Knutsen & Ludvigsen ) ( b. 1947 )

* 1870 – Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary ( d. 1919 )

In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.

* 1899 – Gustav Gründgens, German actor ( d. 1963 )

* 1621 – Katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden ( b. 1535 )

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (; April 8, 1859, Proßnitz, Moravia, Austrian Empire – April 26, 1938, Freiburg, Germany ) was a philosopher and mathematician and the founder of the 20th century philosophical school of phenomenology.

* 1926 – Henry Gustav Molaison, American psychiatric patient ( d. 2008 )

* 1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.

* 1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles X Gustav had refused.

* 1805 – Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician ( d. 1859 )

They received considerable support from Minister of Defense Gustav Noske, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who used them to crush the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the Marxist Spartacist League and arrest Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who were killed on 15 January 1919.

* 1817 – In Germany, Gustav von Below, an aristocratic officer of the Prussian Guard, and his brothers, founded a charismatic movement based on their estates in Pomerania, which may have included speaking in tongues.

Gustav II Adolf ( 9 December 1594 – 6 November 1632, O. S.

Gustav Radbruch ( 21 November 1878 – 23 November 1949 ) was a German legal scholar and politician.

* 1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer ( d. 1911 )

* 1800 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician ( d. 1885 )

* 1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.