8th November 1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath begins under Denmark’s Christian II

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8th November 2019

8th November 1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath begins under Denmark’s Christian II

Christian II had invaded Sweden in an attempt to preserve the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single monarch.

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# Christian II
#Denmark
#Gustav Trolle
#Gustav Vasa
#Kalmar Union
#Sten Sture
#Stockholm
#Sweden
#Swedish Was of Liberation

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