Olaf II of Denmark

King of Denmark and Norway

7 dated entries naming Olaf II of Denmark, drawn from 6 separate years between 1370 CE and 1402 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.

Also written as Olaf IV of Norway, Olav IV of Norway in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century

1370King Olav IV of Norway (d. 1387)source
1376May 3 – Olav IV Haakonsson is elected King Oluf II of Denmark, following the death of his grandfather, Valdemar IV, in 1375.source
1385Olav IV of Norway is elected as titular King of Sweden, in opposition to the unpopular King Albert.source
1387August 22 – Olaf, King of Norway and Denmark and claimant to the throne of Sweden, dies. The vacant thrones come under the regency of his mother Margaret I of Denmark, who will soon become queen in her own right.source
1387August 23 – King Olaf IV of Norway/Olaf II of Denmark (b. 1370)source
1388February 2 – Queen Margaret I of Denmark is proclaimed the Queen of Norway after the death of her son, Olav IV Haakonsson.source

15th century

1402October 28 – The "False Olaf", a Bohemian immigrant who bore a resemblance to the late King Olaf of Denmark and Norway and impersonated the late monarch earlier in the year, is burned at the stake as punishment.source

Olaf II of Denmark

14th century

15th century

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