Christina of Sweden Abdicates
1654
The brilliant, stubborn, Latin-reading Queen Christina, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, shocked Europe by abdicating the Swedish throne, converting to Catholicism, and moving to Rome. She kept a court of scholars, funded Bernini, and left her hunting gloves scattered across papal drawing rooms. Sweden was relieved; Rome was charmed and appalled.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.