Age of Liberty
Period of Swedish and Finnish history from 1719 to 1772 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In Swedish and Finnish history, the Age of Liberty (Swedish: frihetstiden; Finnish: vapauden aika) was a period that saw parliamentary governance, increasing civil rights, and the decline of the Swedish Empire that began with the adoption of the Instrument of Government in 1719 and ended with Gustav III's self-coup in 1772. This shift of power from the monarch to parliament was a direct effect of the Great Northern War.
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Kingdom of Sweden | |||||||||
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1719–1772 | |||||||||
Capital | Stockholm | ||||||||
Common languages | Swedish (official) | ||||||||
Religion | Church of Sweden (official) | ||||||||
Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
King/Queen | |||||||||
• 1718-1720 (first) | Ulrika Eleonora | ||||||||
• 1720-1751 | Frederick I | ||||||||
• 1751-1771 | Adolf Frederick | ||||||||
• 1771-1772 (last) | Gustav III | ||||||||
President of the Privy Council Chancellery | |||||||||
• 1718-1720 (first) | Arvid Horn | ||||||||
• April – August 1772 (last) | Joachim von Düben | ||||||||
Legislature | Riksdag of the Estates | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
21 February 1719 | |||||||||
• Queen Ulrika Eleonora abdicated | 24 March 1720 | ||||||||
2 May 1720 | |||||||||
19 August 1772 | |||||||||
Currency | Riksdaler | ||||||||
ISO 3166 code | SE | ||||||||
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Suffrage under the parliamentary government was not universal. Although the taxed peasantry was represented in the Parliament, its influence was disproportionately small, and commoners without taxed property had no suffrage at all.