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1809
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1810
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1814
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1.14.1814
Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania. |
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1818
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2.5.1818
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. |
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1844
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9.28.1844
Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
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1860
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5.3.1860
Charles XV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
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1873
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5.12.1873
Oscar II is crowned King of Sweden.
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1889
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3.28.1889
The Yngsjö murder occurs in Yngsjö, Sweden and Anna Månsdotter is arrested along with her son.
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1890
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8.7.1890
Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
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1905
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9.23.1905
Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
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10.26.1905
Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
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1910
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11.23.1910
Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person in Sweden to be executed.
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1927
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4.14.1927
The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
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1931
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5.14.1931
Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration. |
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1940
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2.29.1940
In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. |
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3.3.1940
Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper ''Norrskensflamman'' in Luleå, Sweden.
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1945
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1.17.1945
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
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1946
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1961
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4.24.1961
The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged. |
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1967
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9.3.1967
Dagen H in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
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1975
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1977
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1.15.1977
The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.
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1980
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1.1.1980
Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
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1981
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10.27.1981
The Soviet submarine ''U 137'' runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. |
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1989
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12.13.1989
The last issue of ''Gnistan'' (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden.
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1994
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11.13.1994
In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union. |
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1995
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1998
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10.29.1998
The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden claims 63 lives and injures 200.
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1999
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5.28.1999
Two Swedish police officers are murdered with their own fire arms by the bank robbers Jackie Arklöv and Tony Olsson after a car chase. |
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2000
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7.1.2000
The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic. |
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2009
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