Valdemar IV dies and Denmark passes to Margaret's regency
1369
The warrior-king who had clawed back Danish territory from the Hanseatic League and Swedish magnates died without a male heir. His daughter Margaret maneuvered her infant son onto the throne and began the political campaign that would culminate in the Kalmar Union - Scandinavia united under one extraordinary woman's will.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.