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Hace 2 días · Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus II Adolphus; ruled 1611–32) was only 16 years old when his father, Charles IX, died, so the actual leadership passed to the aristocrat Axel Oxenstierna and the council. The regency period lasted only a few months, however, before Gustav Adolf took full power.
Hace 3 días · Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, known as the "Lion of the North", at the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631. From 1626 to 1629, Gustavus was engaged in a war with Poland–Lithuania, ruled by his Catholic cousin Sigismund, who also claimed the Swedish throne and had Imperial support.
Hace 1 día · Sweden has continuously been a monarchy since the country's consolidation in the Viking Age and early Middle Ages, for over a thousand years. [1] The incumbent royal dynasty of Sweden is the House of Bernadotte, established on the throne in 1818.
Hace 4 días · #1. I have a distinct memory of reading the statement that Gustavus "wished to remain neutral vis a vis Spain" (while being at war with the *Austrian* Habsburgs) and that this annoyed his paymaster, Cardinal Richelieu.
Hace 22 horas · Denmark ( Danish: Danmark, pronounced [ˈtænmɑk] ⓘ) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe. It is the metropolitan part of and the most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark, [N 8] a constitutionally unitary state that includes the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland in the North ...
Hace 3 días · While at Gustavus Adolphus College, he discovered and fell in love with jazz. He performed all around Chicago, singing and doing improv and scat. In the 1990s, he recorded his first demo, which led to a contract with Blue Note Records. His demo became the label’s first Grammy nominee. Elling later worked with other labels and ...
Hace 3 días · ST. PETER, MINN. — The stench of rotting flesh mingled with July 4th smells such as hot dogs on the grill and freshly mown grass on Independence Day in this college town. The corpse flower burst...
