* 1656 – Polish-Lithuanian forces clash with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.

Twenty-one years after, it will host the contest again, after Swedish singer Loreen's victory in at Eurovision Song Contest 2012, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

* Election results 2006: Fredrik Reinfeldt ( Moderate Party ) elected Prime Minister on 5 October 2006 after the victory for Alliance for Sweden in the Swedish general election, 2006.

After the dissolution of the first coalition through the peace of Travendal and with the victory at Narva ; the Swedish chancellor, Benedict Oxenstjerna, attempted to use the bidding for the favor of Sweden by France and the Maritime Powers ( then on the eve of the War of the Spanish Succession ) to end the war and make Charles an arbiter of Europe.

In 1714, Peter's galley navy managed to capture a small detachment of the Swedish navy in the first Russian naval victory near Hanko peninsula.

The result was a Swedish victory.

After securing his " favorite " victory in the Battle of Holowczyn, despite being outnumbered over one to three against the new Russian army, Charles opted to march eastwards on Moscow rather than try to seize Saint Petersburg, founded from the Swedish town of Nyenskans five years earlier.

On November 20, 2000, the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lena Hjelm Wallén inaugurated the new memorial / monument to celebrate the victory.

Nevertheless, Wittstock was a resounding victory for the Swedish forces and corrected any delusions harboured by the Imperialists that they were a spent force after the earlier battle of Nordlingen.

) was the decisive victory of Peter I of Russia over the Swedish forces under Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld in one of the battles of the Great Northern War.

He then achieved a stunning propaganda victory when he established the city of Saint Petersburg on Swedish territory, in Ingria.

His crowning achievement was the great victory near the Dvina River in the Battle of Kircholm ( modern Salaspils, Latvia ) on September 27, 1605, when with barely 4000 troops, mostly the famous heavy hussars, he annihilated a threefold larger Swedish army ; for which feat he received letters of congratulation from the Pope, all the Catholic potentates of Europe, and even the sultan of Turkey and the shah of Persia.

Swede Axel Nordlander won the individual competition, and led the Swedish eventing team to victory as well, earning himself two gold medals.

The battle was unrivalled in size until the 20th century, was a decisive Swedish tactical victory but its strategical result was poor ( due to poor army performance and previous lack of initiative from the Swedes ) and the war ended without any territorial changes.

The war was characterized by a back-and-forth movement of the Swedish and Prussian armies, neither of whom would score a decisive victory.

The army's very premise, to suppress Frederick, was found false-on being notified of his victory at on 5 November 1757, the Swedish commander Marshal Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg dared not obey the orders from his government and the French agent Marc René de Montalembert to lead his ill-equipped army in a march on Berlin, instead returning in November 1757 to Swedish Pomerania, where the Swedes were being besieged by the Prussians at Stralsund and Rügen.

Thus the Swedish forces were diverted from their real objective and transferred to another field where even victory would have been comparatively unprofitable.

After the dissipation of the first coalition against him by the Treaty of Travendal on 18 August 1700 and the victory at the Battle of Narva on 20 November 1700 the Swedish Chancellor, Bengt Oxenstierna, rightly regarded the universal bidding for the favour of Sweden by France and the maritime powers, then on the eve of the War of the Spanish Succession, as a golden opportunity of " ending this present lean war and making his majesty the arbiter of Europe.

In the Kalmar War ( 1611 – 1613 ) he led the Swedish troops to victory against the Danish forces, led by King Christian IV of Denmark, at the Battle of Kölleryd, on February 21, 1612.

The Swedish royal secretary Philipp Sattler wrote that Knyphausen had contributed greatly to the final victory, having " done the most to sustain the wavering battleline ".

In this role he served at the major Swedish victory at the Battle of Oldendorf in 1633.

In the Finnish War ( 1808 – 1809 ) on October 27th, 1808 he led the Swedish troops to victory against the Russian forces, at the Battle at Virta Bridge.

The Swedish king was not content with his stunning victory, and at the Swedish Council held at Gottorp on 7 July, Charles X Gustav resolved to wipe his inconvenient rival from the map of Europe.

During the Thirty Years ' War, Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna brought the Moravian Brethren refugee John Amos Comenius to Elbląg for six years ( 1642 – 48 ).

During the Thirty Years ' War, Kolberg was occupied by imperial forces from 1627 to 1630, and thereafter by Swedish forces.

The collection remaining at Prague was looted during the last year of the Thirty Years War, by Swedish troops who sacked Prague Castle on 26 July 1648, also taking the best of the paintings, many of which later passed to the Orléans Collection after the death of Christina of Sweden.

During the ensuing Thirty Years ' War, the city was occupied by Saxon and Swedish troops, and lost 18, 000 of 40, 000 citizens to plague.

* May – Thirty Years ' War – Munich, capital of Bavaria, is captured by the Swedish army.

* September 9 – Thirty Years ' War – Besieged by Wallenstein at Nuremberg, Swedish king Gustav Adolph attempts to break the siege, but is defeated in the Battle of the Alte Veste.

** Thirty Years ' War – Battle of Lützen – Swedish king Gustav II Adolf leads an assault on Wallenstein's army, but is killed early in the battle.

* July 9 – Thirty Years ' War: Stettin is taken by Swedish forces.

* Thirty Years ' War: Swedish intervention starts.

* August 4 – Thirty Years ' War: With the help of Danish and Swedish reinforcements, Stralsund is able to resist Wallenstein's siege until the landing of a Danish army, led by Christian IV of Denmark, forces Wallenstein to raise the siege and move his army to confront the new threat.

* January 23 – Thirty Years ' War: Sweden and France sign the Treaty of Bärwalde, a military alliance in which France provides funds for the Swedish army invading northern Germany.

Liechtenstein was invaded by both Austrian and Swedish troops during the Thirty Years ' War of 1618 – 1648.

In 1648, Sweden became a guarantee power for the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years ' War and left her with the additional dominions of Bremen-Verden, Wismar and Swedish Pomerania.

Occupied by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years ' War, the city was granted to Brandenburg-Prussia after the Treaty of Westphalia ( 1648 ) and the Treaty of Stettin ( 1653 ), and with all of Farther Pomerania became part of the Brandenburgian Pomerania.

During the Thirty Years ' War, on June 26, 1630, the Swedish Army under King Gustav Adolf II landed in the village of Peenemünde, located on the Peene river ( Polish: Piana ).

In April 1631, during the Thirty Years ' War, Frankfurt was the site of the Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder between the Swedish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.

During the Thirty Years ' War, Greifswald was occupied by imperial forces from 1627 to 1631, and thereafter by Swedish forces.

The decline of Anklam began with the Thirty Years ' War, when Swedish and Imperial troops battled almost twenty years for Anklam.

Johan Banér ( 23 June 1596 – 10 May 1641 ) was a Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years ' War.

Category: Swedish people of the Thirty Years ' War

In June 1634, during the Thirty Years ' War, Lothar Dietrich Freiherr von Bönninghausen, a General with the Imperial Army, lost the Battle of Oldendorf to Swedish General von Kniphausen, in the process of which Hamelin was besieged by the Swedish army.

Towards the end of the Thirty Years ' War, the townsfolk were looking after 50 Swedish soldiers, which brought them protection by the Swedish Army, and thereby also a reputation as a " field hospital town " (" Lazarettstadt ") that lasted until the end of the Second World War.