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Apr 12, 2024 · Died: November 30, 1718, Fredrikshald, Norway (aged 36) Title / Office: king (1697-1718), Sweden. Role In: Battle of Poltava. Second Northern War. Russo-Turkish wars. Charles XII (born June 17, 1682, Stockholm—died November 30, 1718, Fredrikshald, Norway) was the king of Sweden (1697–1718), an absolute monarch who defended his country for ...
From the autopsy of Charles XII in 1917 [34] Charles XII's sarcophagus in Riddarholmen Church, Stockholm. Charles's body has been exhumed on three occasions to ascertain the cause of death; in 1746, 1859 and 1917. [33] The 1859 exhumation found that the wound was in accordance with a shot from the Norwegian fort.
Sep 17, 2012 · Detail of Charles XII’s skull with the mummified scalp peeled back to reveal the full extent of the damage caused by the projectile that killed him. 1917 autopsy photograph. The written...
Jan 24, 2023 · A new Finnish study in which the researchers shot at artificial skulls completely refutes the idea that he was killed by his own war-weary soldiers. Bård Amundsen JOURNALIST. tuesday 24. January 2023 - 11:44. The war hungry King Charles XII was King of Sweden, which then included present day Finland, from 1697 to 1718.
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At about nine o'clock on the night of November 30th, 1718, as Charles XII was inspecting sapping operations from a forward trench before the Norwegian fortress of Fredrickshall, a bullet travelling at high speed entered his left temple, and passed clean through his skull. He died instantaneously.
Charles XII, Swedish Karl, (born June 17, 1682, Stockholm, Swed.—died Nov. 30, 1718, Fredrikshald, Nor.), King of Sweden (1697–1718). Son of Charles XI, he became absolute monarch at age 15. He defended his country for 18 years in the Second Northern War, gradually taking increased responsibility for planning and executing armed operations ...
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Charles XII, sometimes Carl XII or Carolus Rex, was King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. He belonged to the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, a branch line of the House of Wittelsbach. Charles was the only surviving son of Charles XI and Ulrika Eleonora the Elder. He assumed power, after a seven-month caretaker government, at the age of fifteen.
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