Other historians claim that the Swedish flag was blue with a white cross before 1420, and became blue with a golden cross only during the early reign of King Gustaf Vasa, who successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish King Christian II in 1521.

The exact age of the Swedish flag is not known, but the oldest recorded pictures of a blue cloth with a yellow cross date from the early 16th century, during the reign of King Gustaf Vasa.

By 1885 12 new families had moved into the settlement and it was decided that they would change the name to “ Vasa ” in honor of the Swedish king Gustaf Vasa.

Gustaf Vasa ( 1523 – 60 ) determinedly strengthened the central power and mightily increased the authority and resources of the crown, and his reign marked the beginning of the early modern Swedish state.

* Gustaf Gustafsson of Vasa, later known as Gustaf Gustafsson of Vasa ( 1799-1877 )

* Crown Prince Gustaf, after 1809 known as Gustaf Gustafsson of Vasa ( 9 November 1799 – 1877 ); married Princess Louise Amelie of Baden.

Gustav, Prince Vasa ( 9 November 1799 at Stockholm – 4 August / 5 August 1877 at Pillnitz ), born Crown Prince of Sweden and later called Gustaf Gustafsson von Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Vasa ) was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica.

Gustaf also served as an officer to the Habsburgs of Austria, and in 1829, Emperor Francis II created him Prince of Vasa.

The House of Nobility, south end, with statue of Gustav Vasa | Gustaf Eriksson Vasa.

Carl Milles sculpted the Poseidon statue in Gothenburg, the Gustaf Vasa statue at the Nordiska museet, the Orfeus group outside the Stockholm Concert Hall and the Folke Filbyter sculpture in Linköping.

The songs interspersed in the four operas which they produced together, viz., Gustaf Vasa, Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe, Aeneas i Carthago, and Drottning Kristina, are wholly the work of Kellgren.

Most well known of the nation balls ( as opposed to balls organized by student unions ) is the ball hosted by Göteborgs Nation-called the " Gustaf II Adolf Ball " ( also known as the " GA-Ball ").

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 most common fully automatic sub-machine gun in civilian hands in Sweden is the Carl Gustaf M / 45.

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

The Svedberg Laboratory is a university facility that contains the Gustaf Werner cyclotron, which is used for research as well as for proton therapy for the treatment of cancer with close cooperation with the oncology clinic at Uppsala Academic Hospital.

* December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V as king of Sweden.

It is said that he was one of the best clients of the celebrated fortune teller Ulrica Arfvidsson and even asked her for political advice, and he also favoured the medium Henrik Gustaf Ulfvenklou, who also exercised great influence over the duke.

Queen Silvia of Sweden ( née Silvia Renate Sommerlath ; born 23 December 1943 in Heidelberg ) is the spouse of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Originally, it was Margaret's sister Patricia who had been considered a suitable match for Gustaf, when he was, as it is believed, arranged without his knowledge to meet the two sisters.

The marriage between Margaret and Gustaf Adolf is described as a happy love match.

Unlike the attitude of her reform-hostile in-laws, King Gustaf and Queen Victoria, this is believed to have eased political tensions and preserved the Swedish monarchy.

Her great-grandsons are King Harald V of Norway and King Albert II of Belgium ; her great-great-grandsons are King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg ; her great-great-granddaughter is Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

The current monarch of Sweden is King Carl XVI Gustaf.

Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien ( IVA ), founded in 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden.

The eldest living child of a monarch is sometimes not the heir apparent or crown prince, because that position can be held by a descendant of a deceased older child who, by " right of representation ", inherits the same place in the line of succession that would be held by the ancestor if he or she were still living ( e. g., Carl Gustaf, Duke of Jämtland, was de facto Crown Prince of Sweden from 1950 to 1973, as the senior grandson by male primogeniture of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, although the former Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland, was Gustaf VI's eldest living son, and Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, his eldest living dynastic son during those years ).

The Swedish Monarch ( Carl XVI Gustaf | King Carl XVI Gustaf ) is no longer the Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces, although he continues to receive treatment as if he still were.

However, the Monarch of Sweden ( as of present King Carl XVI Gustaf ), is still a four-star general and admiral à la suite in the Swedish Army, Navy and Air Force and is by convention the foremost representative of the Swedish Armed Forces.

He was elected by Parliament as President of the Republic on July 25, 1919, defeating Carl Gustaf Mannerheim ( the candidate supported by the National Coalition and Swedish People's parties ) by 143 votes to 50 ( see, for example, Sakari Virkkunen, " Finland's Presidents I ," Helsinki, 1994 ).

For Swedish monarchs, the ordinal qualifies only the first name ; for example, Carl XVI Gustaf, known as " Carl Gustaf ", is the sixteenth Carl / Karl / Charles, but the second Carl Gustaf ( after Charles X Gustav ).

In another study from 1824, colonel — and much later Swedish Minister for War — Gustaf Oscar Peyron suggested that it would be better to fortify positions just south of Boden — along the more northern Lule River — for example at Sävast or Avan.

" Boccaccio reading from the Decameron to Queen Johanna of Naples ", by Egide Charles Gustave Wappers | Gustaf Wappers ( 1803-1874 ), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

The non-mathematic numbering tradition continues with the current King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, being counted as the equivalent of Charles XVI.

Charles XII and Mazepa at the Dnieper River after Battle of Poltava | Poltava by Gustaf Cederström

Examples for the romantic heroization of Charles XII in several genres are Esaias Tegnér's song Kung Karl, den unge hjälte ( 1818 ), Johan Peter Molin's statue in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården ( unveiled on 30 November 1868, the 150th anniversary of Charles ' death ) and Gustaf Cederström's painting Karl XII: s likfärd (" Funeral procession of Charles XII ", 1878 ).

Swedish warlike kings Charles XII and Gustaf IV Adolf made use of the men when they fought around in Europe.

Charles XII of Sweden | Charles XII and Mazepa at the Dnieper River after Poltava by Gustaf Cederström.

Born in Tarvasjoki, Finland, he was the great grandson of Charles XII of Sweden's general, Carl Gustaf Armfeldt.

As the Swedish Act of Succession was changed in 1979, and the throne was inherited regardless of sex, the inheritance right was withdrawn from all the descendants of Charles XIV John ( king 1818-44 ) except the current king Carl XVI Gustaf.

Swedish monarchs from Gustavus Adolphus ( d. 1632 AD ) to Gustaf V ( d. 1950 ) are entombed here ( with exceptions such as Queen Christina who is buried within St. Peter's Basilica in Rome ), as well as the earlier monarchs Magnus III ( d. 1290 ) and Charles VIII ( d. 1470 ).

The following month saw the Swedisch-Brandenburg-Transylvanian-Romanian-Cossack forces play cat and mouse with the Polish-Lithuanian forces, moving about all of the commonwealth without any major engagements, except the capture of Brest by Charles X Gustav in May, and the sack of Warsaw by Rákóczi and Gustaf Otto Stenbock on 17 June.

Through his daughter Sibylla, Charles Edward is the maternal grandfather of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Crown Prince Carl ( the later king Charles XV of Sweden | Charles XV ) and his brother Prince Gustaf, known as a song composer ( the two young men closest to the pulpit ), attending a lecture held by Law Professor Johan Christopher Lindblad ( 1799-1876 ) in the Theatrum Œconomicum, Uppsala.

Some of Bonnat's more notable students include: John Singer Sargent, Stanhope Forbes, Gustave Caillebotte, Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke, Gustaf Cederström, Laurits Tuxen, P. S. Krøyer, Suzor-Coté, Alfred Philippe Roll, Georges Braque, Thomas Eakins, Raoul Dufy, Jean Béraud, Marius Vasselon, Hubert-Denis Etcheverry, Fred Barnard, Louis Béroud, Paul de la Boulaye, Aloysius O ' Kelly, Erik Werenskiold, Edvard Munch, Alphonse Osbert, Henry Siddons Mowbray, Charles Sprague Pearce, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Walter Tyndale.