Events from the year 1523 in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

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Monarch A monarch () is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary. "Monarch". Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest ...

: Gustav I (starting 6 June)

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* May - The Swedes takes Kalmar from the Danes after the Conquest of Kalmar. * June - Gustav Vasa is elected King in Strängnäs and the

Kalmar Union The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret I of Denmark, Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then in ...

is thereby formally dissolved. * June - The city of Stockholm is taken by the Swedes after the Conquest of Stockholm. * June - Stockholm Castle is taken by the Swedes. * June - Gustav Vasa make his formal entry to Stockholm and is celebrated as King. * November - The last Danish-held stronghold in Sweden (with Finland), Viborg Castle, is taken by the Swedes.

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