{"slug": "frederick-i-of-sweden", "label": "Frederick I of Sweden", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I_of_Sweden", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52932", "qid": "Q52932", "description": "king of Sweden (1676-1751)", "entries": 8, "years": 6, "span": [1676, 1751], "span_label": ["1676 CE", "1751 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sweden", "label": "Sweden", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "charles-xi-of-sweden", "label": "Charles XI of Sweden", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "stockholm", "label": "Stockholm", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-style", "label": "Old Style", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "william-iii-of-england", "label": "William III of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "riksdag-of-the-estates", "label": "Riksdag of the Estates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mary-ii", "label": "Mary II", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April 23", "text": "April 23 – King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992596#Births", "title": "1676", "revid": 1365992596, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 – In the Battle of Stäket, Crown Prince Frederick I of Sweden leads the successful defense of Stockholm from Russian Admiral Fyodor Apraksin's Baltic Fleet during the Russian Pillage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365415998#July–September", "title": "1719", "revid": 1365415998, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1720, "year_label": "1720 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 (February 29 Old Style) – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden resigns, to let her husband Frederick I take over as king of Sweden. She had desired a joint rule, in a similar manner to William III and Mary II in Britain, but as the Riksdag of the Estates (Sweden's parliament) refuses this, she abdicates in her husband's favour instead.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358044251#January–March", "title": "1720", "revid": 1358044251, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1720, "year_label": "1720 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – The coronation of King Frederick I of Sweden takes place in Stockholm, six weeks after his rule began.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358044251#April–June", "title": "1720", "revid": 1358044251, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1743, "year_label": "1743 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – As a concession to Russia, Sweden's parliament ratifies the election of Adolphus Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, a great-grandson of King Charles XI, to be heir to the throne of Sweden. Adolphus becomes king on the death of King Frederick on April 5, 1751, marking the end of the Hesse-Kassel dynasty and the start of the dynasty of the Holstein-Gottorp that will rule Sweden from 1751 to 1818", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360887949#July–September", "title": "1743", "revid": 1360887949, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1744, "year_label": "1744 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – Hedvig Taube, mistress to King Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1714)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370823870#Deaths", "title": "1744", "revid": 1370823870, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – King Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#Deaths", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – Sweden's King Frederick I dies at the age of 74 (March 25 on the Julian calendar, which remains in effect in Sweden and Finland until 1753), after a reign of 31 years, bringing an end to the rule of Sweden by the House of Hesse because he has no legitimate heirs. Prince Adolf Frederick of the House of Holstein-Gottorp, who had been elected as the crown prince in 1743, becomes the new King.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#April–June", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}