Danish-Swedish Wars
Wars between Denmark and Sweden have fought at several points in history. According to legend, the mythical Battle of Bråvalla in the 8th century was the first high point in the rivalries between Danes and Swedes . Modern Sweden broke away from the late medieval Kalmar Union only after several wars of independence ( Engelbrekt Uprising 1434–1436 , Danish-Swedish War 1464–1471 , Danish-Swedish War 1483–1497 , Danish-Swedish-Luebian War 1501–1512 , Swedish War of Liberation 1520-1523). These wars were also called Union Wars .
In the following, however, only those modern wars are listed that took place under Gustav Wasa from the 16th century after the consolidation of Sweden as a nation-state independent of Denmark . The armed conflicts between Danes and Swedes ended at the beginning of the 19th century, and a Pan-Scandinavian feeling of solidarity led to reconciliation in the middle of the 19th century.
| war | Period | Started by | winner | peace | result |
| Three crown war | 1563-1570 | Denmark | Denmark | Peace of Szczecin | Sweden paid 150,000 thalers to get Älvsborg fortress back, but Estonia won. |
| Kalmar War | 1611-1613 | Denmark | Denmark | Peace of Knäred | Sweden pays 1 million to get Älvsborg fortress back but loses the Finnmarks. |
| Torstensson War , part of the Thirty Years War | 1643-1645 | Sweden | Sweden | Peace of Brömsebro | Sweden gets Jämtland , Härjedalen , Gotland and Ösel as well as Halland for 30 years, the Swedish tariff exemption in Öresund also applies to Swedish provinces. |
| Danish-Swedish War 1657–1658 , part of the Second Northern War | 1657-1658 | Denmark | Sweden | Peace of Roskilde | Sweden receives Schonen , Blekinge , Halland, Bornholm , Bohuslän and the province of Trondheim |
| Danish-Swedish War 1658–1660 | 1658-1660 | Sweden | Denmark | Peace of Copenhagen | Denmark receives the province of Trondheim and Bornholm. Sweden receives the island of Ven . |
| Scena war | 1675-1679 | Denmark | none | Peace of Lund | no area changes |
| Great Northern War | 1700-1720 | Sweden | Denmark | Peace of Frederiksborg | Sweden loses the tariff exemption in Öresund and pays 600,000 Reichstaler to Denmark and is forced out of association with the Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf family . |
| Theater war | 1788-1789 | Sweden falls to Denmark's ally, Russia , which is supported by Denmark. | Sweden | Denmark stops supporting Russia. | |
| Danish-Swedish War (1808–1809) - part of the Coalition Wars and the Russo-Swedish War | 1808-1809 | Denmark | Sweden | Peace of Jonkoping | no boundary changes. |
| Part of the coalition wars | 1813-1814 | Sweden | Sweden | Kiel Peace | Sweden forces Norway to be swapped for Swedish Pomerania . |