Swedish War of Liberation
Stockholm Carnage
(hand-colored copper engraving from 1676 after a woodcut from 1524)
| date | 1521 to 1523 |
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| place | Scandinavia |
| Casus Belli | Stockholm bloodbath |
| output | Swedish independence Dissolution of the Kalmar Union |
| Peace treaty | Treaty of Malmö (1524) |
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The Swedish War of Liberation (1521–1523) ( Swedish : Befrielsekriget ) was a civil war in Sweden in which the Swedish nobleman Gustav Vasa successfully deposed the Danish-Norwegian King Christian II . The Kalmar Union was dissolved. The Danish-Norwegian personal union lasted until 1814.
On June 6, 1523 Gustav Vasa was elected the new King of Sweden in the town of Strängnäs . In 1522, the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, led by its mayors Nikolaus Brömse and Hermann Plönnies, allied itself with the Swedish side. After the takeover of Stockholm in June 1523 by the Lübeck fleet, led by Plönnies and Berend Bomhover , Sweden was actually liberated. Swedish Finland was also liberated by September . With the Treaty of Malmö of September 1, 1524 , Sweden left the Kalmar Union.
Butcher
- Battle of Brunbäcks färja (April 1521)
- Battle of Västerås (April 29, 1521)
- Conquest of Kalmar (May 27, 1523)
- Conquest of Stockholm (June 16-17, 1523)
credentials
- Sweden . In: Myths of the Nations . German Historical Museum . Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- Ulf Sundberg: Befrielsekriget 1521–1523 ( Swedish ) In: Svenskt Militärhistoriskt Bibliotek . 1998. Retrieved August 2, 2008.
- Alexander Ganse: Swedish War of Liberation, 1521–1523 . In: World History at KMLA . Retrieved March 29, 2007.