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1 Important assemblies

The House of Knights, seat of the Nobility.

The meeting at Arboga in 1435 was usually considered to be the first Riksdag, but there is no indication that the fourth estate, the peasants, had been represented there.

• The first meeting is likely the one that took place at Uppsala in 1436 after the death of rebel leader Engelbrekt.
• At the Riksdag in 1517 regent Sten Sture the Younger and the Privy CouncilThe Privy Council or Riksradet later Statsradet was the principal government institution of Sweden from 1319 to 1974. The Privy Council originated as a council of personal advisers to the Monarch where the foremost advisor received the title of Earl or Ja pushed for the decision to depose archbishopIn Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop heading a diocese of particular importance due to either its size, history, or both, called an archdiocese. When a bishop becomes an archbishop, he is not in any sense being ordained nor otherwise recei Gustav Trolle , which started a chain of events that led to the Stockholm BloodbathThe Stockholm Bloodbath or the Stockholm Massacre took place as the result of a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of Christian II of Denmark (in Swedish history known as "Christian the Tyrant"). The bloodbath itself is a ser and eventually the dissolution of the Kalmar UnionThe Kalmar Union united the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden under one monarch in 1397. The countries had given up their sovereignty but not their independence and Swedish dissatisfaction over the Danish centralized government gave rise to the.
• At Söderköping in 1595Events January 30 William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time June 9 Battle of Fontaine-Francaise. Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness. October 28 Battle of Guirgevo. Transylvanian fo, Duke CharlesCharles IX or Karl IX ( 1550- 1611), king of Sweden, was the youngest son of Gustav I of Sweden and Margareta Lejonhufvud. By his father's will he got, by way of appanage, the Duchy of Sudermannia, which included the provinces of Nericia and Wermelandia; was elected regent over Sweden instead of King Sigismund, who was a Catholic and the monarch of both Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• In 1612 the meeting decided to give the nobility the privilege and right to hold all higher offices of government, after successful lobbying by Axel Oxenstierna.
• The first open conflict between the different estates happened in 1650.
• At the Riksdag in 1680 a large scale reduction (a return of lands to the Crown earlier granted to the nobility) was decided.

• At the sessions in 1634, 1719, 1720, 1772 and 1809 new constitutional instruments of government were adopted.