Gustaf V (Oscar Gustaf Adolf; 16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950) was King of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until his death in 1950. He was the eldest son of...
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HSwMS Gustaf V, in Swedish HM Pansarskepp Gustaf V (His Majesty's Armoured Ship Gustaf V) was a Sverige-class coastal defence ship of the Swedish Navy...
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until his death in 1973. He was the eldest son of Gustaf V and his wife, Victoria of Baden. Before Gustaf Adolf acceded to the throne, he was crown prince...
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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Finland Swedish: [(kɑːrl) ˈɡʉstɑːf (ˈeːmil) ˈmɑnːærˌheim] , 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military commander...
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Sweden and the Winter War (redirect from Statsrådsdiktamen by Gustaf V)
intentions. In the "Statsrådsdiktamen" on 19 February 1940, Sweden's king Gustaf V publicly rejected pleas from Finland's government for military intervention...
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Sweden from 8 December 1907 until her death in 1930 as the wife of King Gustaf V. She was politically active in a conservative fashion during the development...
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Friedrich Karl renounced the throne on 14 December 1918. Svinhufvud resigned and Lieutenant General Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, the leader of the Whites during the...
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April. On 26 April the group moved to Drottningholm in Stockholm. King Gustaf V has been accounted to have had an amicable relationship with his Norwegian...
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70th Birthday Medal of King Gustaf V (1928) Recipient of the 90th Birthday Medal of King Gustaf V (1948) King Gustaf V's 90th Anniversary Medal Thailand:...
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Swedish royal family and the mother of the current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. Born into the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sibylla was the daughter...
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Karl Gustaf Andresen (1 June 1813, in Uetersen, Duchy of Holstein – 25 May 1891, in Bonn) was a German linguist. He was the father of Romance philologist...
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Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad was born in Sääksmäki. He was the son of Pehr Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, a sea captain, and Olga von Becker. His father drowned...
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Juho Kusti Paasikivi (redirect from Johan Gustaf Hellsten)
internationally known. Paasikivi was born Johan Gustaf Hellsten (Finland Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjuhɑn ˈgʉstɑːf ˈhelːsteːn]) in 1870 at the smoke sauna of...
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Eric Ericson (category 1918 births)
Eric Gustaf Ericson (26 October 1918 – 16 February 2013) was a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher. He graduated from the Royal College...
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Charles XV 1872–1907: Oscar II 1907–1950: Gustaf V 1950–1973: Gustaf VI Adolf 1973–present: Carl XVI Gustaf 1818–1844: Charles III John 1844–1859: Oscar...
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Sweden from 29 October 1950 until her death in 1965 as the wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf. Born a princess of the German House of Battenberg, Louise was...
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Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (category 1918 deaths)
20 April 1889 – 20 September 1918) was a Swedish and Norwegian prince. He was the third and youngest son of King Gustav V of Sweden and Victoria of Baden...
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Tavaststjerna 1911–1913 Arthur Spåre 1913–1917 Albert von Hellens 1917–1918 Gustaf Ignatius 1918–1940 Pekka Heikkinen 1940–1950 Lauri Riikonen 1950–1960 Erkki...
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1900–1905 Karl Staaff, 1905–1915 Daniel Persson, 1915–1918 Nils Edén, 1918–1924 Carl Gustaf Ekman, 1924–1932 Felix Hamrin, 1932–1935 Liberalism and...
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Victoria) Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is the current monarch of Sweden having reigned from 1973. He is the youngest and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of...
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Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum (12 March 1862 in Kalmar – 1933 in Djursholm) was a Swedish chemist and secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from...
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Gustav, also spelled Gustaf (pronounced /ˈɡʊstɑːv/ or /ˈɡʊstɑːf/ in English; Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav] (both spellings)), is a male given name of likely Old...
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General Gustaf Fredrik Oskar Uggla (22 January 1846 – 7 January 1924) was a senior Swedish Army officer. Uggla had a distinguished military career in Sweden...
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(formerly HMS Saxifrage) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently on the Thames...
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Gustaf Adolf Sundquist (June 4, 1879 – August 25, 1918) was an ordinary seaman serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who received...
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Gustav Klimt (redirect from Gustaf Klimt)
Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement...
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Gustaf Jonnergård (1918–1985) was a Swedish politician. He was a member of the Centre Party. This article was initially translated from the Swedish Wikipedia...
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Shoot on the Spot Declaration (category Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim)
-julistus) was a statement issued by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, military leader of the Whites, on 25 February 1918, in the early stages of the Finnish Civil...
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extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary. In the same month, Ambassador Gustaf von Dardel [sv] presented his credentials to King Frederik IX at Fredensborg...
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Council and held roles as aide-de-camp and chief aide-de-camp to King Gustaf V. Apart from his military career, Douglas was also a prolific writer, producing...
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