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t. e. The Swedish Empire ( Swedish: stormaktstiden, "the Era of Great Power") [1] was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region. The beginning of the period is usually taken as the reign of ...
The Third and Fourth Coalitions, 1803–07 The British rupture of the peace. Among the causes of the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens was Napoleon’s refusal to make a trade treaty with Great Britain. Excluded from France and the countries under French control, British merchants and manufacturers found peace no more profitable than war.
The Russo-Swedish War of 1590–1595 was instigated by Boris Godunov in the hope of gaining the territory of the Duchy of Estonia along the Gulf of Finland belonging to Sweden since the previous Livonian War . As soon as the Truce of Plussa expired early in 1590, a large Russian army led by Godunov and his sickly brother-in-law, Feodor I of ...
February 22. Alliance consisting of Denmark-Norway, Saxony, Poland and Russia declares war on Sweden, initiating Great Northern War. Battle of Narva. 1702. July 8. Battle of Kliszów. 1706. February 3. Battle of Fraustadt ends in slaughter of captured prisoners by victorious Swedish army.
1590–1595 Russo-Swedish War, together with the Livonian War known as the "25 years war against Russia", leading to Treaty of Teusina. Northern Estonia becomes part of Sweden. 1592 Sigismund king; 1598–1599 War against Sigismund; 1599 Duke Charles regent; 1600–1629 Polish War leading to the Truce of Altmark 1629, and Treaty of Stuhmsdorf 1635.
The 1788-1790 Russo-Swedish War was Admiral Vasily Chichagov's finest hour. It was Chichagov who frustrated the plans of the Swedes to destroy, one by one, the units of the Russian navy scattered ...
This battle initiated the Anglo-Russian War and drew Denmark into the Napoleonic conflicts in the Dano-Swedish War of 1808–09, in which both Russia and Denmark fought on France's side. However, Napoleon's disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia pushed Russia to the opposing, British-led side in the War of the Sixth Coalition , while Denmark ...
