{"slug": "riksdag", "label": "Riksdag", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksdag", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272930", "qid": "Q272930", "description": "supreme legislative body of Sweden", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1604, 2022], "span_label": ["1604 CE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 7}], "related": [{"slug": "sweden", "label": "Sweden", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "prime-minister-of-sweden", "label": "Prime Minister of Sweden", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sigismund-iii-vasa", "label": "Sigismund III Vasa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-ix-of-sweden", "label": "Charles IX of Sweden", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "riksdag-of-the-estates", "label": "Riksdag of the Estates", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1604, "year_label": "1604 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 24", "text": "February 24 – At Linköping in Sweden, the Riksdag declares that Sigismund, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, who has been absent for five years, has effectively abdicated as King of Sweden, and recognizes Karl, Duke of Södermanland, as the new monarch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348862771#January–March", "title": "1604", "revid": 1348862771, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1866, "year_label": "1866 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – In Sweden, the Riksdag of the Estates votes to replace itself by an elected two-chamber Riksdag.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368829327#June", "title": "1866", "revid": 1368829327, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1880, "year_label": "1880 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 – The Prime Minister of Sweden, Louis De Geer, resigns over the defeat of a defense reform bill in the country's Riksdag; he is succeeded by Count Arvid Posse (1880–1883).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371273111#April", "title": "1880", "revid": 1371273111, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 – Hjalmar Branting leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after the Swedish Riksdag has rejected a government proposal regarding unemployment benefits. Right-wing academic and jurist Ernst Trygger succeeds him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367772921#March–April", "title": "1923", "revid": 1367772921, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 2018, "year_label": "2018 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 – The 2018 Swedish general election is held to elect all 349 members of the Riksdag, Sweden's unicameral legislature.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373090883#September", "title": "2018", "revid": 1373090883, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 24", "text": "November 24 – Magdalena Andersson resigns as Prime Minister-elect of Sweden hours after the Riksdag voted her in as Sweden's first female prime minister. She was due to take office on 26 November. Instead, she takes office on 30 November.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689859#November", "title": "2021", "revid": 1372689859, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 11", "text": "September 11 – The 2022 Swedish general election is held to elect all 349 seats of the Riksdag. Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns after her centre-left bloc narrowly loses to a bloc of right-wing parties, 176 seats to 173; Andersson is succeeded as prime minister by Ulf Kristersson in October.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#September", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › September"}}]}