Swedish Navy

naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces

6 dated entries naming Swedish Navy, drawn from 6 separate years between 1630 CE and 1851 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 Royal Swedish Navy, Swedish Royal Navy in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century

1630June 6 – Swedish warships depart from Stockholm, Sweden for Central Europe.source
1676June 1 – Scanian War: Battle of Öland – A combined fleet of the Dutch Republic and Denmark–Norway decisively defeats the Swedish Navy, which loses its flagship Kronan.source
1680August 20 (August 10 Old Style) – The settlement of Karlskrona in Sweden is founded, as the Royal Swedish Navy relocates there.source

18th century

1714July 27 – The Imperial Russian Navy gains its first important victory against the Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut.source
1790July 9 – Russo-Swedish War – Second Battle of Svensksund: In a massive Baltic Sea battle of 300 ships, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian galley fleet: 304 Swedes are killed, 3,500 Russians killed and 6,000 captured, 51 Russian galleys and other rowing craft are sunk and 22 are taken.source

19th century

1851September 30 – HSwMS Eugenie leaves from Karlskrona, Sweden to begin its voyage as the first Swedish Royal Navy vessel to circumnavigate the world.source

Swedish Navy

17th century

18th century

19th century

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