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• 1702 - May 14 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw
  
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• 1702 - July 19 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Krakow
  
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• 1708 - September 11 - Great Northern war: Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the war
  
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• 1709 - June 27 - Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
  
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• 1710 - February 28 - In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock
  
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•   1712 - February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style.
  
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  February 29, 1712
  
• 1720 - February 1 - Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty
  
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• 1720 - February 29 - Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
  
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• 1720 - July 3 - Sweden & Denmark sign peace treaty
  
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• 1800 - Population of Sweden - 2,347,000
  
  
• 1809 - Sweden declared independence; constitutional monarchy established; Russia took Aland Island group from Sweden
  
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• 1814 - Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden
  
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•   1870 - The King of Sweden intends to make a journey round the world.
  
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  June 4, 1870
  
•   1871 - Sweden and Norway Tops in Education
  Official reports show that in Sweden and Norway, 97 out of every 100 children between 5 and 15 attend school, a larger percentage than anywhere else.
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  January 14, 1871
  
•   1872 - Saloon Licenses in Sweden
  In Sweden only a limited number of saloon licenses are granted, and these are sold at auction. The saloons must close at a fixed hour, no liquor may be sold to a child or a drunkard, and no money can be recovered for liquor sold on credit.
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  Saint Joseph, Michigan
  March 16, 1872
  
• 1875 - Denmark, Norway and Sweden adopted common basis of currency
  
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• 1895 - Sweden
  "Swe'den, a country of North Europe, forming the E. and larger portion of the Scandinavian peninsula, and one of the kingdoms composing the monarchy of Sweden and Norway, situate between lat. 55° 20' and 69° N. and lon. 11° 15' and 24° E., bounded E. by the Baltic, the Gulf of Bothnia, and Russia, S. by the Baltic, W. by Norway, the Cattegat, and the Sound. Capital, Stockholm..."
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
• 1897 - World exposition held in Stockholm; first Swedish car built
  
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• 1900 - Population of Sweden - 5,136,400
  
  
•   1901 - December 10 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
  
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  December 10, 1901
  
• 1905 - Union of Norway and Sweden dissolved
  
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•   1912 - May 5 – The Olympic Games open in Stockholm, Sweden.
  
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  May 5, 1912
  
• 1918 - Sweden recognized Finland as independent state; Swedish naval expedition sent to Aland Islands to protect against Russians; Spanish flu epidemic killed 38,000 in Sweden
  
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• 1920 - Sweden joined League of Nations
  
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• 1946 - Sweden joined United Nations
  
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