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Gustav Vasa

King of Sweden from 1523 to 1560

6 dated entries naming Gustav Vasa, drawn from 6 separate years between 1496 CE and 1543 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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15th century

  • 1496May 12 – King Gustav Vasa of Sweden (d. 1560)source

16th century

  • 1516January 1 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav Vasa of Sweden (d. 1551)source
  • 1521The Swedish Army was founded by Gustav Vasa.source
  • 1531September 24 – At the age of 35, King Gustav I Vasa of Sweden is married for the first time, taking Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg as his bride on her 18th birthday.source
  • 1535April 20 – While King Gustav Vasa of Sweden is out of the country, an unusual atmospheric phenomenon, the Vädersol, appears in the sky over the Swedish capital of Stockholm, and last for two hours. Because of uncertainty about whether the vädersol is a sign of God showing favor or disapproval of the Protestant reformation and of King Gustav himself, the Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop Olaus Petri commissions Urban Larsson to document the event in a painting, the Vädersolstavlan.source
  • 1543March 20 – King Gustav of Sweden leads troops in troops crushing Dacke's Rebellion, led by Swedish peasant Nils Dacke, with defeat coming at the Battle of Hjortensjon.source

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