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The history of Sweden can be traced back to the melting of the Northern Polar Ice Caps. From as early as 12000 BC, humans have inhabited this area. Throughout the Stone Age, between 8000 BC and 6000 BC, early inhabitants used stone-crafting methods to make tools and weapons for hunting, gathering and fishing as means of survival. [ 1]
The Swedish Empire ( Swedish: stormaktstiden, "the Era as a Great Power") [ 1] was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region.
Map of New Sweden ca. 1650 Seal of the Swedish governor of Saint Barthélemy, 1784–1878. By the middle of the 17th century, the Swedish Empire had reached its greatest territorial extent. The Swedes sought to extend their influence by creating an agricultural and fur trading colony to bypass French, English and Dutch merchants. The charter ...
160,885 km 2 (62,118 sq mi) Sweden is a country in Northern Europe on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It borders Norway to the west (which is one of Sweden’s non- EU neighbours); Finland to the northeast; and the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia to the south and east. At 450,295 km 2 (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe ...
Battle of Landskrona. 1678. Invasion of Rügen. 1679. August 23. Treaty of Fontainebleau signed, restoring all Danish conquests during the Scanian War to Sweden. 1680. City of Karlskrona founded. Great Reduction of 1680 enacted, returning to the Swedish Crown lands that had earlier been granted to the nobility.
v. t. e. The history of Scandinavia is the history of the geographical region of Scandinavia and its peoples. The region is located in Northern Europe, and consists of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Finland and Iceland are at times, especially in English-speaking contexts, considered part of Scandinavia.
A rough map of the extent of Swedish rule, c. 1280. The greatest medieval statesman of Sweden, and one of the principal architects of its rise as a nation, Birger Jarl the Regent, practically ruled the land from 1248 to 1266. He is today revered as the founder of Stockholm and as the creator of national legislation.
New Sweden ( Swedish: Nya Sverige) [ 1] was a colony of the Swedish Empire along the lower reaches of the Delaware River between 1638 and 1655 in present-day Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the United States. [ 2] Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great power, New Sweden formed part of the Swedish ...