When at last the bill for the reorganization of the army, together with a considerably increased taxation, was accepted by the Riksdag of 1901, it was generally acknowledged that, in return for the increased taxation, it would only be just to extend the right of taking part in the political life and the legislative work of the country to those of the population who hitherto had been excluded from it.

At last the Riksdag of 1901 accepted a Bill for insurance against accidents which also extended to agricultural labourers, in connexion with the establishment of a state institution for insurance.

Björn Gustaf von Sydow ( born 26 November 1945 ) was the speaker ( talman ) of the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament.

He entered the Riksdag at the young age of 37, and under Carl Gustaf Ekman he served as Minister of Trade from 1926 to 1928 and as Minister of Finance from 1930 to 1932.

The government bill having, however, been passed by the Second Chamber, the Prime Minister proposed to the king that the Riksdag should be dissolved and new elections for the Second Chamber take place in order to hear the opinion of the country, but as the king did not approve of this Mr Staaff and his government resigned.

She resigned from the Riksdag on September 18, 2007.

The central bank of Sweden (" Sveriges Riksbank " or simply " Riksbanken ") was founded in Stockholm from the remains of the failed bank Stockholms Banco in 1664 and answered to the parliament (" Riksdag of the Estates ") thus making it the oldest central bank still operating today.

The Danish army, unopposed, was approaching Uppsala, where the members of the Swedish Riksdag had already assembled.

On 2 November Bernadotte made his solemn entry into Stockholm, and on 5 November he received the homage of the Riksdag of the Estates, and he was adopted by King Charles XIII under the name of " Charles John " ( Karl Johan ).

Although the Riksdag of the Estates of 1840 meditated compelling him to abdicate, Charles John survived that abdication controversy and he went on to have his silver jubilee, which was celebrated with great enthusiasm on 18 February 1843.

In 1810 French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's top generals, was elected Crown Prince Charles by the Riksdag.

In 1957 he was elected as an Member of Parliament ( Swedish: riksdagsledamot ) represented Jönköping County in the directly-elected First Chamber ( Första kammaren ) of the Riksdag.

The monarch still ruled under the law and could only legislate in agreement with the Riksdag of the Estates ; rather, the absolutism introduced was the monarch's ability to run the government unfettered by the privy council, contrary to earlier practice.

The absolute rule of Charles XI was instituted by the crown and the Riksdag in order to carry out the Great Reduction which would have been made impossible by the privy council, constituted of high nobility.

The nobility and the majority of the Riksdag of the Estates supported John, however, in his endeavours to unify the realm, and Charles had consequently ( 1587 ) to resign his pretensions to autonomy within his duchy ; but, steadfast Calvinist as he was, on the religious question he was immovable.

Necessity compelled him to work with the clergy and people rather than the gentry ; hence it was that the Riksens ständer ( Riksdag ) assumed under his regency government a power and an importance which it had never possessed before.

With Sigismund defeated and sent packing, and as both an alien and a heretic to the majority of the Swedish nation, and his formal deposition by the Riksdag of the Estates in 1599 was, in effect, a natural vindication and ex post facto legitimization of Charles's position all along, for the same session of the Riksens ständer named him as the ruler as regent.

Finally, the Riksdag at Linköping, 24 February 1600 declared that Sigismund abdicated the Swedish throne, that duke Charles was recognized as the sovereign.

Carlsson was a member of the Riksdag from 1965 to 1996 representing the constituency of Stockholm County ( until 1970 in the Lower House ).

On 13 March 1809, those who had dethroned Gustav IV Adolf appointed him regent, and he was finally elected king by the Riksdag of the Estates.

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 ).

She was recognized as successor by the Riksdag after she had agreed to renounce the powers of absolute monarchy established by her father Charles XI.

She supported her husband's political ambitions and wanted him to become co-ruler, following the example of William III and Mary II of England, but this was not permitted by the Riksdag, as co-reigning had been forbidden in Sweden since the 15th century.

This succession was confirmed by the Riksdag.

The Riksdag of the Estates confirmed his power in 1693 by officially proclaiming that the king was the sole ruler of Sweden.

" With the war consuming more than half his life and nearly all his reign, he never married and fathered no children, and was succeeded by his sister Ulrika Eleonora, who in turn was coerced to hand over all substantial powers to the Riksdag of the Estates and opted to surrender the throne to her husband, who became King Frederick I of Sweden.

Because Charles XIII was childless, in 1810 the Riksdag of the Estates, the Swedish parliament, elected Prince Christian August of Augustenborg, from Denmark, as heir to the throne.

Under the new Instrument of Government ( one of the four fundamental laws of the Constitution ) enacted in 1974, that task was removed from the Monarch of Sweden and given to the Speaker of the Riksdag.

On 13 April 2007, Persson also announced his resignation from the Riksdag ( where he had served 1979 – 1985 and from 1991 ) to be succeeded by Caroline Helmersson Olsson from his native Vingåker.

But the contrast, at this crisis, between his self-sacrificing patriotism and the treachery of the Russophil aristocracy was so striking that, when the Riksdag assembled, Gustav found that the three lower estates were ultra-royalist, and with their aid he succeeded, not without running great risks in crushing the opposition of the nobility by a second coup d ' état on February 16, 1789 and passing the famous Act of Union and Security which gave the king an absolutely free hand as regards foreign affairs and the command of the army, and made further treason impossible.

The new premier succeeded in persuading the Riksdag to pass a bill increasing the period of service with the colours in the army to six years and that in the militia to forty-two days, and as a set-off a remission of 30 % on the land taxes.

This revelation led to an all-round retrenchment, carried into effect with a drastic thoroughness which has earned for this parliament the name of the " Reduction Riksdag " The Caps succeeded in reducing the national debt, half of which was transferred from the pockets of the rich to the empty exchequer, and establishing some sort of equilibrium between revenue and expenditure.

Although the Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 154 of the 349 seats in the Riksdag, the liberal interim government of Ola Ullsten was succeeded by another centre-right coalition government composed of the People's Party, the Moderate Party and the Centre Party, led by Centre Party leader Thorbjörn Fälldin.

* 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

The remaining constitutional functions of the Monarch are to open the annual session of the Riksdag, to chair the foreign advisory committee, to preside at the special cabinet council when a new Prime Minister takes office, and to be kept informed by the Prime Minister on matters of state.

It consists of the Prime Minister, appointed by the Riksdag, and cabinet ministers appointed by the Prime Minister.

* Elections: A prime ministerial candidate is first nominated by the Speaker of the Riksdag and is confirmed as Prime Minister following a vote in the Riksdag.

* In Sweden, the Riksdag of the Estates is replaced by an elected 2-chamber assembly, the Riksdag.

* May 10 – Gustav IV Adolf is officially deposed from the Swedish throne by the Riksdag of the Estates.

* August 21, 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

* September 26, 1810 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.

* August 21 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

* September 26 – A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.

The war-weary Riksdag asserted new powers and reduced the crown to a constitutional monarch, with power held by a civilian government controlled by the Riksdag.

After he had been deposed in 1599 from the Swedish throne by his uncle, Charles IX of Sweden, and a meeting of the Riksens ständer ( Swedish Riksdag ), he spent much of the rest of his life attempting to reclaim it.