Union of Kalmar: Margaret rules three crowns
June 1397
The shrewd queen Margaret I of Denmark assembled a treaty at Kalmar in southeastern Sweden binding Denmark, Norway, and Sweden under a single monarch. Her young grand-nephew Eric of Pomerania was crowned king of all three in a ceremony designed to emphasize Scandinavian unity. The union, fragile from the start, would last formally until 1523.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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