Timeline of Swedish history

This is a timeline of Swedish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Sweden. To read about the background to these events, see History of Sweden. See also the list of Swedish monarchs and list of prime ministers of Sweden.

Year	Date	Event
530		Posited date of possibly legendary Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern
c. 551		Getica of Jordanes, history of the Gothic people, written in Constantinople
750–790		Trade center Birka, island on Lake Mälaren near present-day Stockholm, established
750s		Beginnings of Scandinavian colonisation along Varangian trade routes (Baltic states to Black Sea)
c. 793		Approximate beginning of Viking Age
800		Rök runestone carved
829		Ansgar's first mission to introduce Christianity to Sweden
850s		Olof I campaigns in Courland (present day western Latvia)

Year	Date	Event
960		Settlement at Birka abandoned
980		City of Sigtuna founded
984		Battle of Fyrisvellir near present day Uppsala; Swedish and Geat tribes unite for first time under Eric the Victorious
990		City of Lund founded
995		Olof Skötkonung, first Swedish king of whom there is substantial historical knowledge, succeeds to throne

Year	Date	Event
1000		Gothi (pagan chieftain-priest) Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði endorses Christianity
1004		Olof Skötkonung baptized; begins adoption of Christianity as official religion
1020		The city of Lund is founded
1036		Ingvar the Far-Travelled leads unsuccessful Viking attack against Persia
1085		City of Helsingborg founded
1087		Temple at Uppsala, the central place of worship within Ancient Norse paganism, destroyed at order of King Inge the Elder.

Year	Date	Event
1100		Vreta Abbey, first Christian convent in Sweden, established
1187		Estonians, Curonians or/and Karelians invade and pillage Sigtuna killing archbishop Johannes^[1]
1187		City of Nyköping founded

Year	Date	Event
1208		Battle of Lena
c. 1215		Eskil Magnusson, first historically attested lawspeaker of Thing of all Swedes (held in Tiundaland, present day Uppland)
c. 1220		Gutalagen law book (also containing the Gutasaga)
1240		Battle of the Neva
1252		City of Stockholm founded
1280		Ordinance of Alsnö gives birth to the frälse, a class of tax-exempt secular nobility

Timeline of Swedish history

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Year	Date	Event
1306	29 September	Håtuna games: coup against King Birger by his brothers, Eric and Valdemar Magnusson
1310		Peace of Helsingborg settles conflicts between Sweden, Norway and Denmark^[2]^[3]
1317	11 December	Nyköping Banquet, Christmas celebration, after which King Birger imprisons his two brothers and starves them to death
1319		Sweden and Norway first unite
1323		Treaty of Nöteborg establishes peace between Sweden and the Novgorod Republic
1344		Bridgettine Order founded by St. Bridget (Heliga Birgitta)
1350		Black Death arrives in Sweden
1359		Magnus IV summons first Riksdag (parliament of Sweden)^[4]
1389	24 February	Battle of Åsle; King Albert deposed
1397		Sweden, Denmark and Norway unite into the Kalmar Union (1397-1523)
1398		Gotland conquered by Teutonic Knights

Year	Date	Event
1409		Teutonic Order sells Gotland to the Kalmar Union
1434		Start of Engelbrekt rebellion against King Erik of Pomerania
1435		Assembly of Swedish nobility at Arboga, considered first Riksdag of the Estates
1436		Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson assassinated
1471		Battle of Brunkeberg
1477		Foundation of Uppsala University
1495		Russo-Swedish War (1495-1497)

Year	Date	Event
1505		First Kalmar Bloodbath
1520		Christina Gyllenstierna defends Stockholm but is defeated by the Danes under Christian II of Denmark; Christian is crowned king of Sweden and orders Stockholm bloodbath
1523		Gustav Vasa liberates Stockholm, leading Sweden out of the Kalmar Union and initiating monarchical rule of the House of Vasa
1524		Treaty of Malmö signed: The Danish king formally renounce his claim to Sweden; Sweden in return renounces claims to Scania and Blekinge
1525		First Dalecarlian Rebellion occurs in parallel with attempt by Christina Gyllenstierna and Sören Norby to take Swedish throne
1526		First Swedish translation of New Testament published
1529		Westrogothian Rebellion
1531		Third Dalecarlian Rebellion, also known as the Bell Rebellion (Klockupproret) begins; suppressed two years later
1535		War with Lübeck leads to expulsion of Hanseatic traders, ending previous Hanseatic League monopoly on foreign trade
1540		First full Swedish translation of Bible, the Gustav Vasa Bible, published
1542		Nils Dacke starts peasant uprising in Småland, defeated the following year
1554		Border skirmishes between Sweden and Russia lead to outbreak of Russo-Swedish War (1554-1557)
1555		A Description of the Northern Peoples (Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus) by Olaus Magnus published
1561		Estonia becomes a Swedish dominion
1567		Sture Murders carried out on the orders of Eric XIV
1577	26 February	Eric XIV dies in imprisonment
1584		City of Karlstad founded
1592		Poland and Sweden enter into a short-lived personal union following crowning of Sigismund III Vasa as King of Sweden
1598		Conflict between Duke Charles, later King Charles IX, and Sigismund, King of Sweden and Poland, leads to outbreak of the War against Sigismund
1598	25 September	Battle of Stångebro
1599		War against Sigismund ends, resulting in deposition of King Sigismund; Sigismund's followers targeted in second Kalmar Bloodbath and the Åbo Bloodbath

Year	Date	Event
1600	20 March	Linköping Bloodbath
1610		Ingrian War between Russia and Sweden begins
1611		Denmark declares war on Sweden, initiating Kalmar War
1613		Treaty of Knäred ends Kalmar War: Sweden obligated to pay Älvsborg Ransom of one million rixdollars for return of fortress of Älvsborg
1614		City of Kristianstad founded
1617	27 February	Treaty of Stolbovo ends Ingrian War: Russia cedes province and fortress of Kexholm, southwestern Karelia and province of Ingria to Sweden, laying foundation for Sweden's rise as a Great Power
1621		City of Gothenburg founded
1628	10 August	Sinking of the Swedish warship Vasa
1630		Sweden enters the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
1631	13 April	Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder
1631	7 September	Battle of Breitenfeld
1632	6 November	Battle of Lützen: King Gustav II Adolf killed
1638		Colony of New Sweden established along the Delaware River in North America
1648		Thirty Years' War ends, with Sweden among the winners; Peace of Westphalia grants Sweden the provinces of Western Pomerania, Wismar, and the bishoprics of Bremen-Verden
1650		Colony of Swedish Gold Coast established on Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana
1654		Queen Christina abdicates throne and converts to Roman Catholicism, creating major scandal
1658	26 February	Treaty of Roskilde: Denmark-Norway cedes provinces of Blekinge, Bornholm, Bohuslän, Scania, Trøndelag and Halland to Sweden
1663		Colony of the Swedish Gold Coast seized by Denmark, and integrated into Danish Gold Coast
1666		Foundation of Lund University
1668		Foundation of Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank
1674	24 December	Sweden invades Brandenburg, triggering Swedish-Brandenburg War
1675		Denmark invades Scania, triggering Scanian War
1676	1 June	Battle of Öland
	17 August	Battle of Halmstad
	4 December	Battle of Lund
1677	26 June	Siege of Malmö
1677	14 July	Battle of Landskrona
1678		Invasion of Rügen
1679	23 August	Treaty of Fontainebleau signed, restoring all Danish conquests during the Scanian War to Sweden
1680		City of Karlskrona founded
1680		Great Reduction of 1680 enacted, returning to the Swedish Crown lands that had earlier been granted to the nobility
1697	7 May	Castle of Tre Kronor burns down, destroying a significant portion of Sweden's national library and royal archives