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Christina, Queen of Sweden

Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626–1689)

8 dated entries naming Christina, Queen of Sweden, drawn from 8 separate years between 1641 CE and 1689 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

  • 1641The town of Falun, Sweden is given city rights by Queen Kristina.source
  • 1642The village of Bro (Broo), Sweden is granted city rights for the second time and takes the name Kristinehamn (literally "Christina's port") after the Swedish monarch at this time, Queen Christina.source
  • 1644December 8 (December 18 New Style) – As Christina comes of age, she is made ruling queen of Sweden.source
  • 1650October 20 – Christina, Queen of Sweden, who has been the legal ruler of Sweden for almost 18 years, has an elaborate coronation ceremony at the castle of Jacobsdal near Stockholm. The coronation had originally been planned for her 18th birthday in 1644 but was delayed by a war with Denmark-Norway.source
  • 1653February – The Morning Star Rebellion (Morgonstjärneupproret) of peasants breaks out in Sweden's province of Närke, against Queen Christina. It is brutally suppressed by April, and its leader, the self-proclaimed King Olof Mårtensson (who uses a morning star as his scepter) is executed on a breaking wheel on April 6.source
  • 1657November 10 – Christina, former Queen regnant of Sweden, has Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi killed in her presence, at the Palace of Fontainebleau.source
  • 1686August 15 – Christina, who had ruled as the monarch of Sweden until her abdication in 1654 in favor of her cousin Charles, responds to the revocation in France of the Edict of Nantz and declares that Jews within Sweden will be under her protection.source
  • 1689April 19 – Christina, Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (b. 1626)source

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