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| 1773 |
| | Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele isolates oxygen but does not immediately publish his achievement | |
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| 1792 |
| | The Swedish king Gustavus III is assassinated at a midnight masquerade in Stockholm – an event later dramatized by Verdi | |
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| 1801 |
| | Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour | |
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| 1803 |
| | The Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild lends 20 million francs to the Danish government | |
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| 1809 |
| | In the Treaty of Hamina (or Fredrikshamn), Sweden cedes Finland to Russia as an autonomous grand duchy | |
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| 1810 |
| | A French marshal, Jean Bernadotte, is offered the position of crown prince and heir to the Swedish throne | |
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| 1814 |
| | Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden, in the Treaty of Kiel, following Bernadotte's successful Danish campaign | |
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| 1832 |
| | The Göta canal is completed, enabling ships to cross Scandinavia from the North Sea to the Baltic | |
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| c. 1845 |
| | With his emphasis on the subjective experience of human Existenz, the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard plants the seed of existentialism | |
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| 1867 |
| | Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, making the volatile explosive nitroglycerine safer by combining it with kieselguhr | |
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