On this day in 1523 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country’s national day.
On this day in 1523 – Swedish regent Gustav Vasa is elected King of Sweden and, marking a symbolic end to the Kalmar Union, 6 June is designated the country’s national day.
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The Kalmar Union (*Kalmarunionen*; Latin: *Unio Calmariensis*) was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden, that from 1397 to 1523, joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway’s overseas colonies (then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland).
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>When Margaret I became ruler of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (1387–88), it was understood that she should, at the first convenient opportunity, provide the three kingdoms with a king who was to be her nearest kinsman; and in 1389 she proclaimed her sister’s grandson, Erik of Pomerania, king of Norway.
>In 1396 homage was also rendered to him in Denmark and Sweden, Margaret reserving to herself the office of regent during his minority.
>To weld the three kingdoms still more closely together, Margaret summoned a congress of the three councils of state (the Rigsraads) and other magnates to Kalmar in June 1397; and on Trinity Sunday, 17 June, the joint coronation of Erik united the kingdoms.