* November 8 – November 10 – 82 noblemen and clergymen, having been sentenced to death for their involvement in the Swedish resistance against the Danish invasion, are executed by beheading in the Stockholm bloodbath.

An enigmatic person who has been hailed as a liberator against the Danes and denounced as a tyrannical ruler, brutally suppressing three uprisings in Dalarna-which had once been the first region to support his claim to the throne-one in Västra Götaland, and one in Småland, Gustav worked to raise taxes, end Feudalism and bring about a Swedish Reformation, replacing the pregoratives of local landowners, noblemen and clergy with centrally appointed governors and bishops.

In the events that followed, despite some initial successes, Sigismund lost the crucial Battle of Stångebro, and was captured himself, as well as forced to deliver up certain Swedish noblemen who were named traitor by Charles and the Riksens ständer.

In fifteen months, she created one hundred and eighty one noble titles, more than any other monarch in Swedish history: one count, two barons, and eight lesser noblemen every month.

He was King of Norway from 1343 until his death in 1380 ; he was also King of Sweden between 1362 and 1364, co-ruling with his father Magnus IV ( Magnus VII of Norway ), until they were both deposed there by Haakon's cousin Albert of Mecklenburg and a clique of exiled Swedish noblemen led by Bo Jonsson Grip.

Also, throughout his rule, especially after the loss of Sweden to the Germans, a noticeable number of Swedish noblemen pledged their support to Haakon and settled on Norwegian lands.

The square was the site of the Stockholm Bloodbath, where Swedish noblemen were massacred by the Danish King Christian II in November, 1520.

The last Swedish commandant of Nyenskans was Colonel Johan Apolloff, preceded by Colonel Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath ( the sons of Russian noblemen, bayors, who had entered Swedish service in the first decades of the 17th century ).

The Malmö Recess agreement further ensured that Scanian noblemen, priests and peasants would be allowed to send representatives to the Swedish parliament.

Benedikte married Svantepolk of Viby and had several daughters, who married Swedish noblemen.

Some Swedish noblemen had become knights of the Johanniterorden by the early nineteenth century ; by 1920, when King Gustav V placed them under his protection as a Swedish Order, they were 54 in number.

Even though it is still a semi-official chivalric order of the Swedish state, membership of the Swedish Order in practice remains limited to noblemen.

A Knight of the Order may be styled " Herr " + surname, which used to be the formal style for Swedish secular Knights ( untitled high-ranking noblemen ) appointed by the Swedish King, a practice that ceased in the 17th Century.

Pursuit of Bernhard's troops threatened to cut off any escape route of the Swedish units, who also promptly broke, turning into a panic stricken mob and leaving their side of the field to the Spanish troops of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand.

Frederick William reacted promptly by marching his armies from the Rhine to northern Brandenburg, and encountered the rear of the Swedish army, which was in the process of crossing a swamp, in the Battle of Fehrbellin ( 1675 ).

Receiving the news, Frederick III of Denmark promptly declared war on Sweden, and by June the Austrian army entered the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the south, immediatetly stabilizing the situation in southern Poland, while Denmark attacked Swedish Bremen-Verden and turned to Jämtland and Västergötland in July.

On 7 July when open sea fleet was notified that state of war with Russia was in effect and already on 8 July the Swedish open sea fleet surprised two unprepared Russian frigates which were promptly captured.

All departures and arrivals should be out of Gothenburg, and cargo was to be auctioned promptly in Gothenburg on arrival, The Swedish state was to receive 100 riksdaler on each shipment, plus taxes: in 1712 100 riksdaler was worth 1200 marks.

On 7 July the Swedish regents amnestied him, and he returned to Copenhagen to try to make his peace with his lawful sovereign, who promptly imprisoned him and his wife.

Swedish Democratic MP William Petzäll was persuaded to leave the party on 26 September 2011 while still retaining his parliamentary seat.

Putting the strategic situation and his own abdication to good use, he persuaded the Swedish crown prince Carl Johan ( the former Marshal Bernadotte of France ) to let the Norwegians keep their constitution.

As soon as he had mounted the throne he took measures to bring the Church of Sweden back to " the primitive Apostolic Church and the Swedish Catholic faith "; and, in 1574, persuaded a synod, assembled at Stockholm, to adopt certain articles framed by himself.

They greatly encouraged the Catholic party in Europe, and John III was ultimately persuaded to send an embassy to Rome to open negotiations for the reunion of the Swedish Church with the Holy See.

Leslie intimated to Oxenstierna that he would stand down from Swedish service but was persuaded to remain and restructure the Army of the Weser.

Instead he persuaded George III to pour secret service money into Swedish politics, to support Russia and undermine French influence.

Scania was allowed to retain its old laws and customs until 1683, at which point the Swedish administration persuaded the Scanian aristocracy to waive the Scanian laws and privileges in favour of the new Swedish law and church ordinance, as a condition for allowing Scanians to have representation in the Swedish parliament.

To avoid it, Resistance leaders persuaded Raoul Nordling, the Swedish consul-general in Paris, to negotiate with the German military governor of Groß-Paris and commander of the Paris garrison, General Dietrich von Choltitz.

As related by the historian Richard Rhodes, on 30 September 1943 Bohr persuaded King Gustaf of Sweden to make public Sweden ’ s willingness to provide asylum, and on 2 October 1943 Swedish radio broadcast that Sweden was ready to offer asylum.

In an effort to conquer and convert the Finns, he allegedly led the First Swedish Crusade against the native Finns and persuaded an English Bishop Henry of Uppsala to remain in Finland to evangelize the natives, later becoming a martyr there.

When Ragnar visited viceroy Östen Beli of Sweden, Östen persuaded him to reject Kraka and marry the Swedish princess Ingeborg.

Soon after the First World War he persuaded the Swedish lighting company Electrolux, for which he then worked ( securing the contract to floodlight the opening ceremony of the Panama Canal, among other successes ), to buy the patent to a cleaner and to pay him for sales in company stock.

Upon meeting the Swedish Folk-Jazz pioneer Bengt-Arne Wallin as well as trombonist Eje Thelin, Landgren was persuaded to move from his strict classical studies to improvisation and to begin the development of his own sound and approach to music.

Barnum who persuaded Jenny Lind-the Swedish Nightingale-to make a concert tour of the United States.

** Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, né Olof Daniel Westling, Swedish prince, married to Crown Princess Victoria

* July 24 – The Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is dethroned by his uncle Duke Charles, who takes over as regent of the realm until 1604, when he becomes King Charles IX.

** Erik Magnusson, Swedish Duke, brother of King Birger ( starved in a dungeon at Nyköpingshus )

** Valdemar Magnusson, Swedish Duke, brother of King Birger ( starved in a dungeon at Nyköpingshus )

Charles Frederick, son of Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp ( a cousin of Charles XII ) and Hedvig Sophia, daughter of Charles XI of Sweden, was the Swedish heir since 1702.

In addition to the rivalries in the anti-Swedish coalition, there was an inner-Swedish rivalry between Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Frederick I of Hesse-Cassel for the Swedish throne.

Key parts of Finland were sometimes under a Duke of Finland during the Swedish reign.

In 1582, king John III of Sweden added Grand Duke of Finland to the subsidiary titles of the Swedish kings, however without any factual consequences, Finland already being a part of the Swedish realm.

Before the Russian conquest Finland had been held by the Swedish kings, first as a royal duchy, since 1581 with the King assuming the secondary title Grand Prince of Finland ( Finnish: Suomen suuriruhtinas, Swedish: Storfurste av Finland ), also often translated as Grand Duke of Finland.

Taking advantage of the Swedish invasion of Poland in 1655, instead of fulfilling his vassal's duties towards the Polish Kingdom, by joining forces with the Swedes and subsequent treaties of Wehlau, Labiau, and Oliva, Elector and Duke Frederick William succeeded in revoking king of Poland's sovereignty over the Duchy of Prussia in 1660.

But while he was able to pick up occasional contracts — including participation in the design of the funeral carriage for the Duke of Wellington and the designs of the Canadian, Danish, Swedish, and Ottoman sections of the 1851 Exhibition in the Crystal Palace — he found no steady employment.

* Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, Swedish prince

* Prince Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland, Swedish prince

By his predecessor Christina, he was considered de facto Duke of Eyland ( Öland ) before ascending to the Swedish throne.

In the 14th century, it was given to various relatives of Danish and Swedish royal families, such as Benedict, Duke of Halland 1353-57.

The Swedish government had broken diplomatic ties with France after the execution of Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien.

There were four exceptions to this, with the game shooting, modern pentathlon and mountain ascents retained by the Olympic committee, and the horse riding competitions being organised by Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, who was the inspector of the Swedish cavalry.

Albert ( Albrekt av Mecklenburg in Swedish ; Albrecht von Mecklenburg in German ; c. 1338 – 1 April 1412 ) was King of Sweden from 1364 to 1389 and Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1384 to 1412 as Albert III.

Another simultaneous plan of procuring the Swedish crown for Duke Charles Frederick also came to nought.

The first union between Sweden and Norway occurred in 1319 when the three-year-old Magnus, son of the Swedish royal Duke Eric and of the Norwegian princess Ingeborg, inherited the throne of Norway from his grandfather Haakon V and in the same year was elected King of Sweden, by the Convention of Oslo.

During Sigismund ’ s absence from Sweden that realm was to be ruled by seven Swedes, six elected by the king and one by his uncle Duke Charles of Södermanland, the leader of the Swedish Protestants.

His philosophy had a great impact on the Duke of Sodermanland, later King Carl XIII, who as the Grand Master of Swedish Freemasonry ( Svenska Frimurare Orden ) built its unique system of degrees and wrote its rituals.