Unlike Norway and Denmark, there is no specific time that is generally agreed on concerning when Sweden can be called unified. Depending on perspective, Sweden has been said to have been unified in the 7th century by Ingjald illråde ("ill-ruler") when he burnt a number of subordinate kings to death inside his hall. Others do not consider this to have happened until a thousand years later, in the 17th century, when all the present territories became Swedish. // Events Islam starts in Arabia, the Quran is written, and Syria, Iraq, Persia, North Africa and Central Asia convert to Islam. ... Ingjald centralizing Sweden Ingjaldr inn illráði or Ingjald illrÃ¥de (ill-ruler), ca 640 - ca 650, was a more or less historical Swedish king of the House of Ynglings. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

Another approach attributes this role to those kings who can be proven to have been kings of both Svealand and Götaland in the 12th century. Svealand is a historical region of Sweden. ... Götaland, Gothia, Gothland [1], Gotland (AHD), Gautland or Geatland, is a historical land of Sweden, and was once divided into petty kingdoms. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...

However, this approach provides a very narrow definition, as it excludes other Swedish regions such as Norrland, Skåneland and Gotland. It is also anachronistic because the territory labelled Svea Rike - Sverige has evolved during the centuries and originally only referred to Svealand. Norrland is a historical land of Sweden. ... SkÃ¥neland or, more properly, SkÃ¥nelandskapen (sometimes the Latin names terra Scania or terra Scaniæ are used) is a denomination for the area once making up the eastern part of Denmark, which was permanently ceded to Sweden under the Treaty of Roskilde (1658). ... Gotland is the largest island in the Baltic Sea. ... An anachronism (from Greek ana, back, and chronos, time) is an artifact that belongs to another time, a person who seems to be displaced in time (i. ...

In both Medieval Icelandic sources and in contemporary Swedish sources, Sweden and Götaland were two separate nations. In Sögubrot af Nokkrum[1] for instance, Kolmården between Svealand and Ostrogothia is described as the border between Sweden and Ostrogothia (...Kolmerkr, er skilr Svíþjóð ok Eystra-Gautland...), and in Hervarar saga[2], king Ingold I rides from Westrogothia to Sweden through Smalandia and Ostrogothia: Ingi konungr fór með hirð sína ok sveit nokkura ok hafði lítinn her. Hann reið austr um Smáland ok í eystra Gautland ok svá í Svíþjóð. The lord Bo Jonsson Grip was probably the one who was best acquainted with the geography of the Swedish kingdom since he owned more than half of it. In 1384, he stated in his testament that the kingdom consisted of Swerige (Sweden, i.e. Svealand), Österland (i.e. Finland) and Göthaland (i.e. Götaland). Sögubrot af Nokkrum is an Icelandic text dealing with the Swedish and Danish kings of old. ... This is a map of the old border forests between Swedes and Geats. ... Hervarar saga ok Heidhreks is a fornaldarsaga from the 13th century using material from an older saga. ... Inge Stenkilsson (king 1079–1084 (?) and 1087–1105) ruled with his half-brother Haakon the Red, until Haakon died, in 1080. ... Westrogothia (Västergötland) is a historical Province (landskap) in the southwest of Sweden. ... Smalandia (Småland, literally Small Country) is a historical Province (landskap) in southern Sweden. ... Bo Jonsson Grip (b. ... Events May / September 3 - Siege of Lisbon by the Castilian army, during the 1383-1385 Crisis Births Deaths December 31 - John Wyclif, theologian Categories: 1384 ... Götaland, Gothia, Gothland [1], Gotland (AHD), Gautland or Geatland, is a historical land of Sweden, and was once divided into petty kingdoms. ...

To complicate the matter, it can also be argued that the first unification of Sweden happened when the Suiones appeared as a tribe, based on Tacitus who described them as several tribes (Suionum hinc civitates) with one king. Suiones, Swedes, Svíar or Svear, were an ancient Germanic tribe in Scandinavia. ... Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Publius or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. ...

Since there are several perspectives on what constitutes Sweden, anyone wanting to establish the date for the unification/beginning/birth of Sweden has to define what they mean by "Sweden" and how they delimit the stages in the evolution of a nation, a country or a state. // For publications of this name, see also Nation (disambiguation). ... A country, a land, is a geographical area that connotes an independent political entity, with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and population, who are one anothers countrymen. ... A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external sovereignty. ...

What is generally agreed on is that Sweden went through a process of consolidation in the early Middle Ages.