The exiled Swedish King Anund Uppsale confirms that either one of the churches was in Birka itself when he ponders if Birka should be plundered:

The first European general to introduce rapid movement, concentrated power and integrated military effort was Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus during the 30 year war.

* 1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.

* 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.

Officially the Swedish King and the Liberal-Social Democratic government proclaimed neutrality in war, as a consequence of pressures in both foreign and domestic policy.

He was King of Sweden ( 1611 – 1632 ) and founder of the Swedish Empire ( or Stormaktstiden " the era of great power ") at the beginning of the Golden Age of Sweden.

In late January or early February 1706 he was forced to flee from the invading troops of the Swedish King Charles XII.

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

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

* 1905 – Swedish King Oscar II excommunicates Norway, thus granting Norway its independence.

His determined Prussian wife showed a strong dislike for this Swedish suitor, because Prussia was a Polish fief and the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa still resented his loss of Sweden to Gustavus Adolphus ' father Charles IX.

* Ring of Sweden, semi-legendary Swedish King

Following the adoption of the 1974 Instrument of Government on January 1, 1975, the Swedish Monarch ( King Carl XVI Gustaf since September 15, 1973 ) is no longer vested any executive authority at all, and is neither part of the executive branch nor of the legislature.

The Swedish Academy (), founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.

The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III.

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.

The Stockholm Bloodbath, or the Stockholm Massacre ( Swedish: Stockholms blodbad, Danish: det stockholmske blodbad ), took place as the result of a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of King Christian II.

The Stockholm Bloodbath was a consequence of conflict between Swedish pro-unionists ( in favour of the Kalmar Union, then dominated by Denmark ) and anti-unionists ( supporters of Swedish independence ), and also between the anti-unionists and the Danish aristocracy, which in other aspects was opposed to King Christian.

Tartu then became Swedish in 1629, which led to the foundation of the university in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

* March – King Gustav Vasa's troops crush the forces of Swedish peasant rebel Nils Dacke in battle, ending the uprising.

* The Swedish city of Gothenburg is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

* King Valdemar Atterdag of Denmark reconquers Scania, which has been in Swedish possession since 1332.

* September 8 – Swedish King Karl X Gustav occupies Warsaw ( Poland ).

In 1851, the tycoon André Oscar Wallenberg founded the Company for Swedish Canal Steamboat Transit Traffic to carry goods from England to Russia via the canal.

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

* 1985 – Oscar Wendt, Swedish footballer

** Oscar A. C. Lund, Swedish film actor, director, and writer ( d. 1963 )

Little Oscar Bernadotte a few years before being chosen with his father to be Swedish royalty.

It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934.

Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd was the first to deliberately design many impossible objects.

Oscar II of Sweden | King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway in the Crown of Eric XIV, the main symbol of the Swedish king.

In Cairo they met Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, the future Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, grandson of the Swedish King Oscar II.

Following the death of her father-in-law in 1859, Oscar was first in line to the Swedish throne after his brother the King.

64-year-old Oscar Swahn, part of the Swedish single shot running deer team, is still the oldest gold medal winner in Olympic history.

* December 31 — Oscar Alin, Swedish historian, politician and author ( born 1846 )

The old opera was demolished in 1892 to give way to the construction of a new Opera by Axel Johan Anderberg and it was finished seven years later, inaugurated by King Oscar II with a production of a Swedish opera ( that tradition having been quite firmly established during the 19th century ), Franz Berwald's Estrella de Soria.

Dikson Island and its adjoining urban settlement have been named after Swedish Arctic pioneer Baron Oscar Dickson.

File: King Oscar II of Sweden in uniform. png | Swedish king Oscar II wearing an admiral's uniform, as shown by the three stars on his epaulettes

Oscar Kjellberg ( 21 September 1870 – 5 July 1931 ) was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.

The staircase design had been discovered previously by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd, but neither Penrose nor Escher were aware of his designs.

The sons of Swedish kings have held the princely title as a rank of nobility ( e. g. Fredrik Vilhelm, Furste av Hessenstein ), or as a courtesy title for an ex-dynast ( e. g. Prins Oscar Bernadotte ) or, most often, as a royal dynast ( e. g. HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden, Duke of Halland ).

Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm.

The typology for bracteates divides them into several letter-named categories, a system introduced in an 1855 treatise by the Danish numismatist Christian Jürgensen Thomsen named Om Guldbracteaterne og Bracteaternes tidligste Brug som Mynt and finally defined formally by the Swedish numismatist Oscar Montelius in his 1869 treatise Från jernåldern:

Oscar Montelius ( 9 September 1843 – 4 November 1921 ) was a Swedish archaeologist who refined the concept of seriation, a relative chronological dating method.