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4 unusual facts about Age of Liberty


Age of Liberty

Northern Swedish Pomerania with Rügen which had come under Danish rule during the war, was retained by Sweden.

By the Treaty of Frederiksborg or Copenhagen on 3 July 1720 peace was also signed between Denmark and Sweden, Denmark retroceding Rügen, Further Pomerania as far as the Peene, and Wismar to Sweden, in exchange for an indemnity of 600,000 Riksdaler, while Sweden relinquished her exemption from the Sound tolls and her protectorate over Holstein-Gottorp.

Elite party

A prominent example of a political system based on elite parties were the Hats and Caps parties in Sweden during the Age of Liberty (1719–1772).

Marie Baptiste

She spent a large part of her career in Sweden, where she was the perhaps most significant female star of the French Theatre during the Age of Liberty.


Gustafs skål

"Gustafs skål", literally Toast to Gustav, is a song written by Carl Michael Bellman as a salutation to Gustav III of Sweden, following the coup d'etat of 1772, which made himself an autocrat and ended the parliamentary age of liberty.


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