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King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is said to have called him " the snow plow, who is going to clear the path for the rest ".
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The first European general to introduce rapid movement, concentrated power and integrated military effort was Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus during the 30 year war.
During the Thirty Years ' War, the Vistula Lagoon was the main southern Baltic base of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who was hailed as the protector of the Protestants.
Bust of King Gustav Adolph on campus at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota
At the time, the King of Sweden was Gustavus Adolphus ' cousin Sigismund.
As his sister Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was queen of Sweden, George William had to maneuver between requests of assistance from his Protestant brother-in-law King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his own Protestant counsellors on one side and his Catholic chancellor Count Adam von Schwarzenberg on the other.
The immediate occasion for the war was the uprising of the Protestant nobility of Bohemia against the emperor, but the conflict was widened into a European War by the intervention of King Christian IV of Denmark ( 1625 – 29 ), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( 1630 – 48 ) and France under Cardinal Richelieu.
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.
* 1632 – Thirty years war: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus dies in the battle.
* Gustavus Adolphus Day, death of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and official flag day ( Sweden )
Tartu then became Swedish in 1629, which led to the foundation of the university in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
The university rose to pronounced significance during the rise of Sweden as a great power at the end of the 16th century and was then given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century.
The turbulent period of the reformation of King Gustavus Vasa resulted in a drop in the already relatively insignificant number of students in Uppsala, which was seen as a center of Catholicism and of potential disloyalty to the Crown.
King Gustavus Adolphus showed the university a keen interest and increased the professorial chairs from eight to thirteen in 1620, and again to seventeen in 1621.
** King Gustavus IV Adolphus ( Sweden )
* November 6, 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( in the Battle of Lützen ) ( b. 1594 )
King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden | Gustav Adolf of Sweden is killed in the Battle of Lützen ( 1632 ) | Battle of Lützen.
* November 16 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( in battle ) ( b. 1594 )
* December 9 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( d. 1632 )
* October 30 – Gustavus Adolphus succeeds his father Charles IX as King of Sweden.
* April 24 – Gustav, Count of Vasaborg, illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus ( Gustav II Adolf ) and his mistress Margareta Slots ( d. 1653 )
* The Swedish city of Gothenburg is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
The Catholic bishops had supported the Danish King Christian II, but he was overthrown by Gustavus Vasa ( 1490 – 1560 ), and Sweden ( with Finland ) was now independent again.
Gustavus used the Protestant Reformation to curb the power of the church and became King Gustavus I in 1523.
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Adolphus Busch changed this slogan to " The King of the Beers ".
Nevertheless, its princesses achieved prominent marriages: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, married King George III in 1761, thus becoming queen consort of Great Britain.
King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was the proponent of the idea.
Not until the reign of King Gustavus Adolphus in the 1620s, there is reliable evidence of a double-tailed blue flag with a yellow cross being carried by Swedish ships.
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* Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustav, one of the official flag days of Sweden.
In the Prose Edda, Gylfi, King of Sweden before the arrival of the Æsir under Odin, travels to Asgard, questions the three officials shown in the illumination concerning the Æsir, and is beguiled.
* 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.
Fleming ( centre ) receiving the Nobel prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden | Gustaf V of Sweden ( right ) in 1945
The images included Thor's fishing for Jörmungandr, Gefjun's ploughing of Zealand from the soil of Sweden, the attack of Hamdir and Sorli against King Jörmunrekk, and the never-ending battle between Hedin and Högni.
# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.
The alleged oldest commercial corporation in the world, the Stora Kopparberg mining community in Falun, Sweden, obtained a charter from King Magnus Eriksson in 1347.
* 1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
* 1377 – King Magnus II of Sweden ( b. 1316 )
1016 ), perhaps married firstly with Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden, and later wife of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, by whom she is said to have been mother of Canute the Great, King of Denmark, Norway and England.
* 1537 – King John III of Sweden ( d. 1592 )
* 1533 – King Eric XIV of Sweden ( d. 1577 )
The people were mentioned as Helsinger ( which may mean " the people of the strait ") for the first time in King Valdemar the Victorious's Liber Census Daniæ from 1231, but they should not be confused with the Helsings of Hälsingland in Sweden.
* 1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
* 1720 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I.
* 1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagellonica of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
* 1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars ( 1655 – 1661 ), the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
* 1771 – Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
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.
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