The foursome's breakthrough came with winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with " Waterloo " on 6 April 1974.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

This came principally from Sweden from the mid-17th century and later also from Russia from the end of the 1720s.

The Peace Party, however, had its own armed forces – scattered bands of household troops ( Hofleute ) under diverse command, which only united in action in 1565 ( Battle of Pärnu, 1565 and Siege of Reval, 1565 ), in 1570 – 1571 ( Siege of Reval, 1570-1571 ; 30 weeks ), and in 1574 – 1576 ( first on Sweden ’ s side, then came the sale of Wiek to the Danish Crown, and the loss of the territory to Tsardom of Russia ).

Cabbage rolls were introduced in Sweden by Karl XII who came in contact with this dish at the time of the Battle of Poltava and during his camp in the Turkish Bender and later introduced by his Ottoman creditors, who moved to Stockholm in 1716.

None of the band came from Guildford: Black is from Ilford, Burnel from Notting Hill, Cornwell from Kentish Town and Greenfield from Brighton, while Wärmling came from Sweden and returned there after leaving the band.

Sweden came back to tie the game at full time, and two 10-minute extra periods were required before Sweden won 32 – 31 after Magnus Wislander scored the deciding goal.

Sweden thus qualified for their fourth final in five attempts, and in front of 14, 300 spectators in Stockholm Globe, they came back from a one-goal deficit when Staffan Olsson equalised with five seconds to spare.

In 1808, as governor of the Hanseatic towns, he was to have directed the expedition against Sweden, via the Danish islands, but the plan came to naught because of the want of transports and the defection of the Spanish contingent.

Her husband also had a mistress, Edla, who came from the same area in Europe as herself, and who was possibly taken to Sweden at the same time.

However, both economical and cultural growth came to an end in mid-17th century with a series of violent wars against Tsardom of Russia, Sweden, Brandenburg and Transylvania, as well as internal conflicts, known altogether as The Deluge.

With New Netherland, the English also came to control the former New Sweden ( in what is now Delaware ), which the Dutch had conquered earlier.

He conquered Sweden in an attempt to reinforce the union, and had about 100 leaders of the Swedish anti-unionist forces killed in what came to be known as the Stockholm Bloodbath of November 1520.

Until 1809, Finland was part of Sweden, and some of the settlers of Sweden's colonies came from present-day Finland or were Finnish-speaking.

The fear lest Sigismund might re-catholicize the land alarmed the Protestant majority in Sweden — particularly the commoners and lower nobility, and Charles came forward as their champion, and also as the defender of the Vasa dynasty against foreign interference.

The name also came from the city of Karlstad, Sweden.

Exhibits came, not only from throughout Britain, but also its expanding imperial colonies, such as Australia, India and New Zealand, and foreign countries, such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France and Switzerland.

The money for that very expensive court, then, since the 1730s came from wealthy Hesse, and this means that Frederick essentially behaved like an absentee landlord and drained Hessian resources to finance life in Sweden.

He was born at Långbanshyttan in Värmland, Sweden, but primarily came to be active in England and the United States.

The first settlers in Coal Valley were trappers and farmers who came from Wales, England, Ireland, Germany and Sweden.

The first pioneers who came to this area of the Thirteen Towns in 1883, which is now Eden Township, were Ole Edevold Sr., O. Dunrud and Andreas Engebretson from Norway and John Erickson from Sweden.

The majority came from Italy, Scotland, Wales, England, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.

This comes out in `` When The Bells Ring '', which describes the rallying of the peasants in southern Sweden to repel an invasion by the Danes.

The first population census in Sweden was carried out in 1749.

10 years after the IFF was founded, the first world championships were played, with a sold out final of 15, 106 people at the Globen in Stockholm, Sweden.

* 1617 – Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.

The university offers 9 out of the 20 most sought after programmes in Sweden.

Erik XIV did not like this and The Northern Seven Years ' War between The Free City of Lübeck, Denmark, Poland, and Sweden broke out.

Graff also points out, using the example of Sweden, that mass literacy can be achieved without formal schooling or instruction in writing.

The last Estonian county to hold out against the invaders was the island county of Saaremaa, whose war fleets had raided Denmark and Sweden during the years of fighting against the German crusaders.

Continued troubles in Italy, as well as pleas from figures such as Petrarch and St. Bridget of Sweden, caused Urban to set out for Rome, which he reached on 16 October 1367.

The lasting irony of the Bloodbath is that an act which was intended to strengthen the position of the unionist party turned out to be the catalyst that permanently separated Sweden from Denmark.

* May 22 – The Treaty of Hamburg takes Sweden out of the war against Prussia.

* End of August – Thirty Years ' War: Running out of supply, Tilly is forced to send his army into the Electorate of Saxony in order to secure supplies, as well as to force a reaction from John George, Elector of Saxony and Gustav Adolf of Sweden.

* September 11 – Thirty Years ' War: As a result of Tilly's invasion, John George, Elector of Saxony, who had until now stayed neutral, allies with Gustav Adolf of Sweden in order to drive the Imperial army out of Saxony.

The 6th century chronicler Jordanes reports a tradition that they had been driven out of their homeland by the North Germanic Dani, which places their origins in the Danish isles or southernmost Sweden.

The official duties of the first governor of New Sweden were carried out by Lieutenant ( promoted to Captain ) Måns Nilsson Kling, until a new governor was chosen and brought from Sweden two years later.

In several European countries ( Belgium, Denmark, The Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland ) greyhound racing is carried out by the owners of the dogs without financial interest.

Modern Sweden started out of the Kalmar Union formed in 1397 and by the unification of the country by King Gustav Vasa in the 16th century.

A few years after the end of the Cold War Sweden became a member of the European Union in 1995, and the old term " policy of neutrality " fell out of use.

Overall Sweden won seven out of a possible fifteen medals in the nordic events, including all three gold medals and a sweep of the 18 kilometer race.

The Vikings are best known as raiders, setting out from their original homelands in Denmark, southern Norway and southern Sweden, to pillage the coastlines of northern Europe.

Moreover, Raeder failed to take into account the possibility that in the long run Norway's occupation might represent a burden to Germany out of all proportion to its strategic advantages " Norway was vital to Germany as a transport route for iron ore from Sweden, a supply that Britain was determined to stop.

In 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina ( present day Wilmington, Delaware ) and quickly spread out in the valley.

Bolivia led a diplomatic effort to do so beginning in March 2009, but eighteen countries out of a total of 184, those 18 being listed as followed ( chronologically: the United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Latvia, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Mexico, Russian Federation, Malaysia, Singapore, and Ukraine ) objected to the change before the January 2011 deadline.