Swedish Empire
1611–1721 · Event
The stormaktstiden: a nation of barely a million, run with ruthless efficiency, dominates the Baltic for a century — from Gustavus Adolphus's battlefields to Poltava.
On these timelines: Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Master
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- Cnut the Great (995)
- Harald Bluetooth converts Denmark (965)
- Gustav Vasa elected King of Sweden (1523)
- Finland and Sweden join NATO (2023)
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Around 1611
- English Civil War (1642)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)