Swedish Empire Peaks at Treaty of Roskilde
1658
After marching his army across the frozen Great Belt in one of history's boldest gambles, Charles X Gustav of Sweden forced Denmark to sign the Treaty of Roskilde, ceding Scania, Halland, and Blekinge. The Swedish Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, ringing the Baltic like a northern Mediterranean under Stockholm's dominion.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.