Union between Sweden and Norway
1814–1905 · Event
Ninety-one years of shared kings and separate parliaments, dissolved peacefully in 1905 when Norway simply voted itself out — 368,208 to 184.
On these timelines: Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Master
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