kalmar union

Prologue Copenhagen – January 1430 The chamber was dark. Heavy curtains of embroidered velvet hung in front of the windows, blocking out the bright winter light that shone down from the cloudless skies that day. For the king, the weather itself seemed to mock him. He had no wish for...

This is a timeline about Eric VII of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, better known as Eric of Pomerania. Often considered the man who ruined the Kalmar Union which his adopted mother created, Eric is generally seen as a very unsuccesful King, but he is also a very important one. Some historians...

Greetings, everyone. For the past couple of months, I've been working on a timeline where the Kalmar Union survives. The POD is in 1520, so it's about as late as possible. I've gotten through nine updates thus far, covering topics like Colonization, The Reformation (Spoiler Alert: I had the...

Union of The Three Crowns: The History of The Nordic Empire Chapter 0: Prologue For better or for worse, the world from 1492 to 1945 was dominated by Europe. During this time, the great empires of Europe, whether the British, French, Spanish or Russians were the main players on the global...

The Swedish War of Liberation was the conflict that led to the rise of the House of Vasa in Sweden and ended the Kalmar Union for good. In spite of its ultimately victorious conclusion, however, the war began as a small peasant uprising, and even after it grew in size it took the rebels two...

The Battle of Brunkeberg was a crushing setback for Denmark and the Kalmar Union, since it secured Sweden's independence from Copenhagen for the next few decades. Although John and Christian II did control the kingdom later, they only did so for a brief amount of time before it broke away for...

In OTL, the childless Kalmar Union king Eric of Pomerania tried unsuccessfully for years to get his paternal first cousin (Bogislav IX, duke of Pomerania) to be named his universal heir in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. This was stymied when the Danish estates rejected Bogislav in 1436 and brought...

With the fall of the Swedish Empire at the beginning of the 18th Century, Sweden had become a lesser player in European affairs, after the end of the Great Northern War, and the death of King Charles XII. They would play a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars, switching sides alongside Russia...

How could Christian II avoid being deposed and hold on to the throne of Denmark and Norway until his death in 1559? How much of a difference would that make in Danish and Scandinavian politics? Wikipedia says he tried to increase the rights of commoners and bourgeoisie at the expense of the...

Hi everyone! I am considering for my next timeline to not reboot the sons of Semiramis after all, though I still am planning to do this sometime in the future, albeit very differently from the first time around. Instead, I’m considering doing a timeline about, as the title suggests, a more...

Part 0 – A day in August [1387] Scandia, a great island in the northernmost parts of the world, as Pliny the elder described it. The sun seemed to offer no warmth that day in early August, it’s rays seemingly being blown away by cold winds, unusual for the season. In the fields of southern...

Coat of arms of House of Griffin, one of the most important dynasties of late Medieval Europe. Born on July 1387 in Darłowo Castle in Duchy of Pomerania-Słupsk, second son of Duke Warcisław VII was given name common among members of Griffin Dynasty-Barnim. House of Griffin ruled Pomerania...

During the 1400s Karl Knutsson Bonde was an on-again off-again king of Sweden (and briefly Norway) but Erik of Pommerania (also king of Denmark and Norway) eventually succeeded in consolidating power and Sweden would remain as a part of the Kalmar union until Gustav I (for the most part) But...

What if the rebellion against Kristian during the 1500s either failed or never occurred to begin with and another rebellion started sometime during the 1700s. How would Scandinavia have developed up until then Who would be the leaders of such a rebellion? Would any foreign powers support it...

The challenge if you choose to accept is to with a POD in 1300 CE, create a scenario wherein the Holy Roman Emperor is the king of Denmark. Stipulations, are that the King do Denmark must have his highest non Imperial title, being the Danish crown. Once this timeline is created, what would be...

OTL, as i understand it, the Kalmar Union functioned as a trifold personal union, not as a single United Kingdom of Scandinavia. however, it lasted from 1397 to 1523, well over a century, and other comparable unions, like Scotland and England, or Castile and Aragon, or the Hapsburg Empire...

Otl, Scandinavia united into a single legislative body with its capital of Kalmar in the 1530s, after a failed swedish rebellion, instead of the three kingdoms of the kalmar union just being in personal union. Scandinavia quickly became a great power, conquering the baltic coast in the east and...

Otl, the scandinavian nations never really had colonial empires. Sweden I get considering it had a Russia and a PLC and a Prussia-- point being Sweden had its hands full as a land empire and didn't need to expand overseas. But Denmark-Norway? Their biggest threat was Sweden itself, as well as...

In the fall of 1471 the Danish king of the Kalmar Union, Kristian I, lost the battle of Brunkeberg just outside Stockholm (roughly in the current heart of the core of downtown Stockholm) to Swedish anti-Union forces under Sten Sture the Elder. The Sture side won through a very successful pincer...

We all know that before the Normans, another foreigner landed on English shores and nearly stole the crown- Harold Hadrada of Norway. Unfortunately, in landing first, he had to deal with the English at their best, and was unable to take much beyond york. But what if his and William's fortunes...