{"slug": "sigismund-iii-vasa", "label": "Sigismund III Vasa", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_III_Vasa", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52940", "qid": "Q52940", "description": "King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 until 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 until 1599 (1566–1632)", "entries": 19, "years": 16, "span": [1587, 1644], "span_label": ["1587 CE", "1644 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 10}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sweden", "label": "Sweden", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "charles-ix-of-sweden", "label": "Charles IX of Sweden", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "poland", "label": "Poland", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "krakow", "label": "Kraków", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "warsaw", "label": "Warsaw", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "polishlithuanian-commonwealth", "label": "Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "riksdag-of-the-estates", "label": "Riksdag of the Estates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lithuania", "label": "Lithuania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rudolf-ii-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "eastern-orthodox-church", "label": "Eastern Orthodox Church", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-catholic-church", "label": "Roman Catholic Church", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-iii-of-sweden", "label": "John III of Sweden", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1587, "year_label": "1587 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 19", "text": "August 19 – Polish and Lithuanian nobles elect Sigismund III Vasa, King of Sweden, as the ruler of the after the death in December of the previous King of Poland and Duke of Lithuania, Stephen Báthory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362478812#July–September", "title": "1587", "revid": 1362478812, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1587, "year_label": "1587 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – Sigismund III Vasa is formally crowned as King Zygmunt Waza of Poland and Duke of Lithuania in a coronation ceremony at Kraków.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362478812#October–December", "title": "1587", "revid": 1362478812, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1589, "year_label": "1589 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 9", "text": "March 9 – The Treaty of Bytom and Będzin is signed between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Austria, ending the War of the Polish Succession. Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria, renounces his claims to the thrones of Poland and Lithuania and acknowledges Sigismund III Vasa of Sweden as the heir to the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359971295#January–March", "title": "1589", "revid": 1359971295, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1592, "year_label": "1592 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – Sigismund III Vasa becomes the new King of Sweden upon the death of his father, King John III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362477183#October–December", "title": "1592", "revid": 1362477183, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1593, "year_label": "1593 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 3", "text": "August 3 – Poland's council of nobles, the Sejm, grants permission to King Sigismund III Vasa and his wife, Queen consort Anne, to travel to Sweden to claim the Swedish crown.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351972668#July–September", "title": "1593", "revid": 1351972668, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1594, "year_label": "1594 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 2", "text": "December 2 – The proposal for the Union of Brest (moving the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church to the Roman Catholic Church) is made in a petition by the Metropolitan Michael Rohoza in a petition to Sigismund, monarch of Poland, Lithuania, Sweden and Finland. After a similar petition to Pope Clement VIII on June 12, 1595, the Union will be proclaimed on October 8, 1596.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319812312#October–December", "title": "1594", "revid": 1319812312, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1594, "year_label": "1594 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – The coronation of Sigismund III Vasa as King of Sweden takes place at Uppsala.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319812312#January–March", "title": "1594", "revid": 1319812312, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1595, "year_label": "1595 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Riksdag of the Estates at Söderköping in Sweden elects the Lutheran Duke Charles as the country's regent, in place of Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland and Sweden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339059002#Date_unknown", "title": "1595", "revid": 1339059002, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1596, "year_label": "1596 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "King Sigismund III Vasa moves the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369722581#Date_unknown", "title": "1596", "revid": 1369722581, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1598, "year_label": "1598 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, departs from Danzig (now Gdańsk) with 80 transports, several warships and exiled members of the Swedish parliament to invade Sweden. The troops land at Kalmar on July 31, and secure its surrender.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769896#July–September", "title": "1598", "revid": 1372769896, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1598, "year_label": "1598 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 25", "text": "September 25 – Battle of Stångebro at Linköping in Sweden: The Catholic King Sigismund of Sweden and Poland is defeated in his attempt to resume control of Sweden by the Protestant forces of his uncle, Charles. Sigismund is deposed shortly thereafter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769896#July–September", "title": "1598", "revid": 1372769896, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1599, "year_label": "1599 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is dethroned by his uncle Duke Charles, who takes over as regent of the realm until 1604, when he becomes King Charles IX.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373325746#July–September", "title": "1599", "revid": 1373325746, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1600, "year_label": "1600 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – Linköping Bloodbath: Five Swedish nobles are publicly executed by decapitation and Polish–Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is de facto deposed as ruler of Sweden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360196741#January–March", "title": "1600", "revid": 1360196741, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1602, "year_label": "1602 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland receives the delivery of eight specially woven Persian carpets displaying Poland's royal coat of arms, after having dispatched agent Sefer Muratowicz to Kashan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351972919#July–September", "title": "1602", "revid": 1351972919, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"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": 1605, "year_label": "1605 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 11", "text": "December 11 – King Sigismund III of Poland marries his former sister-in-law, Constance, daughter of Charles II, Archduke of Austria, after Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor refuses to permit the King to marry Anna of Tyrol. King Sigismund, a widow, had previously been married to Constance's older sister, Anne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362477436#October–December", "title": "1605", "revid": 1362477436, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1632, "year_label": "1632 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – Wladyslaw IV Waza is elected king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, after Sigismund III Vasa's death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358528035#October–December", "title": "1632", "revid": 1358528035, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1634, "year_label": "1634 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Alexander Charles Vasa, 5th son of King Sigismund III Vasa (b. 1614)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353730997#Deaths", "title": "1634", "revid": 1353730997, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1644, "year_label": "1644 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Sigismund's Column is erected in Warsaw to commemorate King Sigismund III Vasa, who moved the capital of Poland from Kraków to Warsaw in 1596.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560996#Date_unknown", "title": "1644", "revid": 1369560996, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}