Swedish History
Just some samples from Swedish history. The space is limited in this free service from Webnode.
Text from Wikipedia. Photos from wikipedia and Anders Dernback.
"Peak" Power in Sweden
Conscerning area Sweden at it´s Peak
Viking expeditions
Aprox year 790 - 1066
Norsemen (Vikings)
Aprox year 790 - 1066
In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age.
The Viking Age (793-1066 AD) is a period in the history of the Scandinavians, during which they expanded and built settlements throughout Europe and beyond. As such the Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.
Norsemen explored Europe by its seas and rivers for trade, raids, colonization, and conquest. In this period, the Norsemen settled in Norse Greenland, Newfoundland, and present-day Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Normandy, Estonia, Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man, the Netherlands, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Italy.
Vikings destroyed the abbey on Lindisfarne, a centre of learning on an island off the northeast coast of England in Northumberland. Monks were killed in the abbey,
The Vikings from Sweden
Swedish tribes 814
Pre Swedish country
Queen Margret I
In the late 14th Century
Kalmar Union
Stockholm Stortorget (2018) where the Blodbath took place 1520. Aprox + 90 people killed. The pavment where covered read.
Stockholm
Queen Ulrika Eleonora
Swedens historical Queens could get + 2 new (Victoria) (Estelle)
Gustavus III
Map of Sweden year 1794
Map 1847
Baltzar von Platen
1,2 million people left Sweden and moved to America
Sweden where starving 1868, 1869 and 1870. Aprox 27 000 people died. Lack of help from the Swedish GOV was one puch factor. A wave started. People left Sweden. Denmark, Germany, Canada but mostly they moved to US.
Slideshow: click: https://www.slideshare.net/AndersDernback/bye-bye-sweden
Some old photos from Sweden
Slideshow
Slideshows and to look please click link. I use slideshare a free service. You can look and/or download as a PDF file.
Carl Michael Bellman: https://www.slideshare.net/AndersDernback/carl-michael-bellman-short
House Bernadotte:https://www.slideshare.net/AndersDernback/swedish-bernadotte
Carl Linnaeus: https://www.slideshare.net/AndersDernback/linneaus
Gustaf Dahlén: https://www.slideshare.net/AndersDernback/gustaf-daln
The Battle at Bornhöft: https://www.slideshare.net/AndersDernback/the-battle-of-bornhft
