Under his tutelage, Sweden and the Protestant cause developed a number of excellent commanders, such as Lennart Torstensson, who would go on to defeat Sweden's enemies and expand the boundaries and the power of the empire long after Gustav Adolph's death in battle.

* 1709 – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.

* June 27 ( Old Style ) – Battle of Poltava: Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden, thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe ( see below ).

Sweden's role in the Thirty Years ' War determined the political as well as the religious balance of power in Europe.

In the subsequent peace treaties, the allied powers, joined by Prussia and England-Hanover, ended Sweden's reign as a great power.

His intervention in Sweden's 1980 referendum on the future of nuclear power is often pinpointed by opponents of nuclear power as saving it.

The defeats suffered by Charles XII in the Great Northern War ended Sweden's position as a first-rank European power.

His brilliant campaigning and startling victories brought his country to the pinnacle of her prestige and power, posthumously earning him the epithet " last of the Vikings ," although the Great Northern War resulted in Sweden's defeat and the end of her empire within years of his own death.

Sparked because of the awakened awareness of nuclear power in Szamotuły, who wanted contacts with Swedish cities because of Sweden's ongoing nuclear debates.

The rivers in Norrland account for the bulk of hydroelectical power in Sweden – in many countries a limited energy source, but in Sweden hydroelectrical power accounts for approximately 40 % of Sweden's total production of electricity.

Bo Jonsson ( Grip ) used this power to personally usurp 1, 500 farms and he soon became Sweden's largest landowner, controlling a third of the entirety of the Swedish territory and possessing the largest non-royal wealth in the country.

Since March 2007, Ullevi has one of Sweden's largest solar power plants, consisting of 600 m² of solar photovoltaic panels situated on the roof of the luxury boxes section.

Sweden's defeat by Russia, Saxony, Poland, Denmark – Norway, Hanover, and Prussia in the Great Northern War ( 1700 – 1721 ) marked the end of significant Swedish power on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea.

Persson stated that, if in power, the conservatives would tamper with Sweden's successful formula of high taxes, a large public sector and generous benefits.

The river is an important source of hydroelectric energy, with major hydroelectric plants at e. g. Porjus and the 977 MW Harsprånget, commissioned in 1952 and expanded in 1983 to become Sweden's largest hydro power station.

Peter founded a new Russia by shattering the old, and by his death in 1725 Russia had taken Sweden's place as Europe's dominant eastern power.

As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.

Sweden's conservative party, the Moderate Party, was formed in 1904, two years after the founding of the liberal party.

In 2001 Finland's outsourced proportion of spending was below Sweden's and above most other Western European countries.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

The Nordic union was in a way formalized on June 17, 1397 by the Treaty of Kalmar, signed in the Swedish castle of Kalmar, on Sweden's south-east coast, in medieval times close to the Danish border.

Lund University library was established in 1666 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest.

Queen Christina of Sweden's tendency to dress as a man was well known during her time, and excused because of her noble birth ; she was brought up as a male and there was speculation at the time that she was a hermaphrodite.

There was some excuse for her ; she had lost three babies and still felt herself an isolated foreigner in a hostile land, even more so after 1627 when her brother joined Sweden's enemies.

It was founded in 1963 due to Sweden's social welfare politics.

" Robyn entered Sweden's pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 1997, as co-writer and producer of the song " Du gör mig hel igen ," which was performed by Cajsalisa Ejemyr.

KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest ( the largest by certain definitions ) institutions of higher education in technology.

The reactor hall remains an amusement to many as once it was next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor.

In 2009, KTH was the only institution among all Sweden's universities to be awarded " Centre of Excellent Quality in Higher Education "( in Computer Science ).

Sweden's military forces was for over a century built upon the concepts of conscription and territorial defence, supporting the longstanding national policy of non-alignment.

While some argued that it went against Sweden's historic policy of neutrality, where Sweden had not joined during the Cold War because it was seen as incompatible with neutrality, others viewed the move as a natural extension of the economic cooperation that had been going on since 1972 with the EU.

During the 1960s he was one of Sweden's most prolific songwriters, producing more than 3, 000 published titles.

Sweden's largest printed encyclopedia of all times, the 2nd edition of Nordisk familjebok was started in 1904 and used the old spelling through all 38 volumes until 1926.

In 1960, it was granted university status, becoming Sweden's fourth state university.

The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders.

Their vision was to build cars that could withstand the rigors of Sweden's rough roads and cold temperatures.

Sweden's row of three successive Championships was broken in Slovenia in 2004, when Germany won despite not being touted as a medal candidate by news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur.

The Swedish monarch is still Head of state, however, and as such retains the role as Sweden's main representative in relations with other countries.

It is currently aired on Sweden's channel 5, kanal5, however only on weekend mornings.

For the last several decades, however, Sweden's own need for church leaders and clergy has been the school's primary focus, and most students enroll today with an eye to future ministry in Sweden, although a number of students also end up working internationally in a variety of mission agencies.

He started Sweden's opening game against the co-hosts, Belgium, however, he was substituted at half-time in the game with a concussion after an defensive error, which allowed Bart Goor to put Belgium ahead, Nilsson played no further part in the tournament.