Events from the year 1544 in Sweden Monarch – Gustav I (1523 - 1560) - The Västerås arvförening declare Sweden to be a Hereditary monarchy, with the right...

1544 (MDXLIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1544th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the...

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and...

(Swedish: Erik XIV; 13 December 1533 – 26 February 1577) was King of Sweden from 1560 until he was captured in a rebellion led by his brother John in 1568...

of the Swedish Crown sets out the many titles of the monarch of Sweden since the creation of hereditary monarchy of the Kingdom of Sweden in 1544. Note:...

often credited as the founder of modern Sweden, and in 1544 he formally abandoned the previous elective monarchy in favor of hereditary succession. Initially...

businessmen in charge, Sweden's economic strength grew rapidly, and by 1544 Gustavus controlled 60% of the farmlands in all of Sweden. Sweden now built the first...

from almost all parts of Sweden participated in the election at the stone of Mora from the 14th century. After 1544, the Swedish King was no longer elected...

urban areas in Sweden as defined by Statistics Sweden on 31 December 2010. The official term used by Statistics Sweden is "locality" (Swedish: tätort) instead...

In 1544, he abolished Medieval Sweden's elective monarchy and replaced it with a hereditary monarchy under the House of Vasa, which held the Swedish throne...

Holstein as an imperial fief by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III in 1474. In 1544, the so-called "one-third duchy" was ceded to Adolf, third son of King...

businessmen in charge Sweden's economic strength grew rapidly, and by 1544 Gustavus had support from 60% of the farmlands in all of Sweden. Sweden now built the...

burghers in charge, Sweden's economic strength grew rapidly, and by 1544 Gustav controlled 60% of the farmlands in all of Sweden. Sweden now built the first...

Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges grundlagar) are the four constitutional laws of the Kingdom of Sweden that regulate the Swedish political system, acting in...

The Church of Sweden (Swedish: Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with...

Riksdag of the Estates (Swedish: Riksens ständer; informally Swedish: ståndsriksdagen) was the name used for the Estates of Sweden when they were assembled...

March 1544) was the last functioning Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also a theologian, genealogist, and historian. Johannes Magnus was born in Linköping...

II of Sweden Carl, Prince of Sweden 1470, son of King Charles VIII of Sweden Carl, Prince of Sweden 1544, son of King Gustav I of Sweden (died in infancy)...

(1450-1814) Kings of Sweden (1457-1464, 1497-1501, 1520-1521) Dukes of Schleswig (1460-1864) (divided among various rulers 1544-1721) Counts (1460–1574)...

and an efficient helper in the introduction of printing into Sweden. There were also scholars, such as Johannes Magnus (died 1544), who wrote the "Historia...

Ruins of Gudsberga Cistercian monastery (1486–1544) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kloster, Sweden. 60°22′N 16°10′E / 60.367°N 16.167°E / 60...

The law of Sweden is a civil law system, whose essence is manifested in its dependence on statutory law. Sweden's civil law tradition, as in the rest of...

The Sweden financial crisis 1990–1994 took place in Sweden when the deflation of a housing bubble caused a severe credit crunch and bank crisis and a deep...

Christian monasteries and religious houses, both extant and dissolved, in Sweden, for both men and women. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R...

(/ˈjɜːn(t)ʃɜːpɪŋ/, Swedish: [ˈjœ̂nːˌɕøːpɪŋ] ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second...

Johannes in 1544, Pope Paul III issued him as Johannes's successor as Archbishop of Uppsala; admittedly nothing more than a title, as Sweden was not Catholic...

– Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544) April 16 – Jungjong of Joseon (d. 1544) April 21 – Ulrich von Hutten, German religious...

was signed on 23 May 1544 between Denmark-Norway and the Holy Roman Empire during an Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in Speyer, Germany. The Union...

country, along with whom new visions of royal power arrived in Sweden. During the 1544 Västerås Diet [fi; sv], the royalty was changed to hereditary and...

structure in Sweden, which did not bear immediate fruit in the Nordic Seven Years' War but was to have a lasting impact on Sweden's fortune. In 1544 he used...