Count Anders Torstenson ( Events The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles Is absolutist tendencies. August 10 – Charles I of England flees London for the north Rebellion of the Gaelic Irish in Ulster against the English settlers The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki... 1641- Events The League of Augsburg is founded. Russia, Saxony, Brandenburg and Bavaria join the Holy League against the Ottoman Turkish Empire. September 2 The forces of the Holy League of 1684 liberate Buda from the Ottoman Turkish rule that leads to the end of Turkish rule in Hungary during the... 1686), The Kingdom of Sweden ( Swedish: Konungariket Sverige  listen?) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. It is bordered by Norway on the west, Finland on the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait on the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia on... Swedish statesman, son of Count Lennart Torstenson (August 17, 1603 - April 7, 1651) was a Swedish soldier and the son of Torsten Lennartson, commandant of Älvsborg Fortress. He was born at Forstena in Westrogothia. At the age of fifteen he became one of the pages of the young King Gustavus Adolphus and served during... Lennart Torstenson and member of the The Swedish Senate: Riksrådet, from 1809 Statsrådet, from 1975 Regeringen was and is the principal government institution of Sweden The Swedish Senate, Senatus Regni Sueciae, originated as a council of Regional Magnates acting as advisers to the Monarch of the combined Realms of the Swedes (from 996, approximately... Privy Council, was from Events February 19 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York May 21 - John Sobieski is elected by the nobility to be the King of Poland. June 6 - Shivaji is... 1674 to Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. October 12 - A London woman is publicly flogged for the crime of involving herself in politics. August 31 - Titus Oates is told to leave his state apartments in... 1681 A Governor-General, or Generalguvernör, was appointed appointed by the Swedish monarch as a form of viceroy, with both civil and military jurisdiction, over parts of the Swedish Realm, from the 17th century to the early 19th century, when constitutional changes made the office obsolete. A Governor-General was... Governor-General of Estonia (disambiguation). The Republic of Estonia is a country in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the north. Estonia has land borders with its fellow Baltic state, Latvia, to the south, with Russia to the east, and maritime border with Finland... Estonia. The family became extinct on the sword-side in Events June 11 - George, Prince of Wales becomes King George II of Great Britain. November 18 – Earthquake in Tazriz, Persia - about 77.000 dead Last execution for witchcraft in Scotland First Amish move to America The Royal Bank of Scotland is founded by royal charter in Edinburgh. Births May... 1727.

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