Portrait
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Name
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Reign
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Succession
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Marriage(s)
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Life details
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House of Vasa
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Juhana I
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19 November 1556 – 17 November 1592 (35 years, 11 months and 29 days)
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Son of Gustav I of Sweden
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Catherine Jagiellon (3 children) Gunilla Bielke (1 child)
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20 December 1537 – 17 November 1592 (aged 54)
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Juhana II
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19 October 1590 – 22 March 1604 (13 years, 5 months and 3 days)
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Son of Juhana I
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Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden (childless)
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18 April 1589 – 5 March 1618 (aged 28)
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Sigismund
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17 November 1592 – 24 July 1599 (6 years, 8 months and 7 days)
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Son of Juhana I
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Anne of Austria (5 children) Constance of Austria (7 children)
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20 June 1566 – 19 April 1632 (aged 65) Deposed after the war against Sigismund. Also king of Poland 1587–1632.
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Regency of Duke Charles (later King Charles IX; 24 July 1599 – 22 March 1604)
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Kaarle I
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22 March 1604 – 30 October 1611 (7 years, 7 months and 8 days)
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Son of Gustav I, proclaimed king after serving as regent for five years
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Maria of the Palatinate (6 children)
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4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611 (aged 61)
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Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (4 children)
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Kustaa I Adolf
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30 October 1611 – 6 November 1632 (21 years and 7 days)
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Son of Charles IX
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Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (2 children)
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9 December 1594 – 6 November 1632 (aged 37) Killed at the Battle of Lützen in 1632
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Christina
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6 November 1632 – 6 June 1654 (21 years and 7 months)
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Daughter of Gustav II Adolf
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Unmarried and childless
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7 December 1626 – 9 April 1689 (aged 62) Abdicated and retired to Rome.
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House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken
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Kaarle II
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6 June 1654 – 13 February 1660 (5 years, 8 months and 7 days)
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Son of Catherine of Sweden, a daughter of Charles IX
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Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1 child)
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8 November 1622 – 13 February 1660 (aged 37)
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Kaarle III
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13 February 1660 – 5 April 1697 (37 years, 1 month and 23 days)
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Son of Charles X Gustav
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Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark (7 children)
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24 November 1655 – 5 April 1697 (aged 41)
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Kaarle IV
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5 April 1697 – 30 November 1718 (21 years, 7 months and 25 days)
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Son of Charles XI
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Unmarried and childless
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17 June 1682 – 30 November 1718 (aged 36) Killed in battle against Denmark–Norway during the siege of Fredriksten in 1718.
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Regency of Princess Ulrika Eleonora (later Queen Ulrika Eleonora; 30 November 1718 – 23 January 1719)
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Ulrika
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23 January 1719 – 24 March 1720 (1 year, 2 months and 1 day)
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Daughter of Charles XI, elected as successor of her childless brother
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Frederick of Hesse-Cassel (king 1720–1751) (childless)
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23 January 1688 – 24 November 1741 (aged 53) Abdicated in favor of her husband in 1720; thereafter consort until her death.
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House of Hesse
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Fredrik
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24 March 1720 – 25 March 1751 (31 years and 1 day)
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Husband and designated successor of Ulrika Eleonora
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Luise Dorothea of Prussia (childless)
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18 April 1676 – 25 March 1751 (aged 74)
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Ulrika Eleonora (ruling queen 1719–1720) (childless)
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House of Holstein-Gottorp
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Fredrik Adolf
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25 March 1751 – 12 February 1771
(19 years, 10 months and 7 days)
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Great-great-great-grandson of Charles IX; elected as heir to the throne in 1743
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Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (4 children)
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3 May 1710 – 12 February 1771 (aged 60) Originally Prince-Bishop of Lübeck (1727–1750).
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Kustaa II
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12 February 1771 – 29 March 1792 (21 years, 1 month and 17 days)
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Son of Adolf Frederick
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Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (2 children)
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13 January 1746 – 29 March 1792 (aged 46) Married to Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (2 children). Assassinated in 1792.
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Kustaa III Adolf
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29 March 1792 – 29 March 1809 (17 years)
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Son of Gustav III
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Frederica of Baden (5 children)
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1 November 1778 – 7 February 1837 (aged 58) Deposed after defeat in the Finnish War; died in exile in Switzerland.
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Grand Duchy of Finland
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House of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
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Aleksanteri I
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29 March 1809 – 1 December 1825 (16 years, 8 months and 2 days)
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Right of Conquest
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Louise of Baden (childless)
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23 December [O.S. 12 December] 1777 – 1 December [O.S. 19 November] 1825 (aged 47) Finland's four estates pledged loyalty to Emperor Alexander I of Russia at the Diet of Porvoo on March 29, 1809, during the Finnish War. After Sweden's defeat and the Treaty of Fredrikshamn on September 17, 1809, Finland became an autonomous Grand Duchy in a union with Russia.
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Nikolai I
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1 December 1825 – 2 March 1855 (29 years, 3 months and 1 day)
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Brother of Aleksanteri I
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Charlotte of Prussia (7 children)
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6 July [O.S. 25 June] 1796 – 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1855 (aged 58) Nicholas's reign began with the failed Decembrist revolt. He is mainly remembered in history as a reactionary whose controversial reign was marked by geographical expansion, centralisation of administrative policies, and repression of dissent. Nicholas
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Aleksanteri II
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2 March 1855 – 13 March 1881 (26 years and 11 days)
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Son of Nikolai I
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Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (8 children)
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29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881 (aged 62) Alexander II re-convened the Diet of Finland and initiated several reforms increasing Finland's autonomy within the Russian Empire, including establishment of its own currency, the Finnish markka. Liberation of business led to increased foreign investment and industrial development
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Catherine Mikhailovna Dolgorukova (morganatic) (3 children)
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Aleksanteri III
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13 March 1881 – 1 November 1894 (13 years, 7 months and 19 days)
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Son of Aleksanteri II
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Dagmar of Denmark (6 children)
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10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 (aged 49) During his reign, Russia fought no major wars as well. He therefore came to be known as "The Peacemaker"
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Nikolai II
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1 November 1894 – 15 March 1917 (22 years, 4 months and 14 days)
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Son of Aleksanteri III
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Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (5 children)
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18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918 (aged 50) Abdicated the throne during the February Revolution, Executed by the Bolsheviks
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Kingdom of Finland
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House of Hesse
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Fredrik Kaarle I
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9 October 1918 – 28 May 1940 (21 years, 7 months and 19 days)
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Elected
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Princess Margaret of Prussia (6 children)
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1 May 1868 – 28 May 1940 (aged 72) Elected by the Finish Parliament; Estonia joined in a personal Union with Finland, as did the short-lived First Kingdom of Karelia and the Grand Duchy of Ingria
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Filippi I
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28 May 1940 – 25 October 1980 (40 years, 4 months and 27 days)
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Son of Fredrik Kaarle I
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Princess Mafalda of Savoy (4 children)
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6 November 1896 – 25 October 1980 (aged 83) Son, restored to the throne of Hesse Kassel, became King of Hesse Darmstadt in 1968
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Mauri I
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25 October 1980 – 23 May 2013 (32 years, 6 months and 28 days)
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Son of Filippi I
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Princess Tatiana of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (4 children)
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6 August 1926 – 23 May 2013 (aged 86) Son
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Filippi II
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23 May 2013 – Present (Reigning)
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Son of Mauri I
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Countess Floria Franziska Marie-Luisa Erika von Faber-Castell (3 children)
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17 October 1966 His reign saw his restoration of the Kingdoms of Karelia and Ingria after the great Russian war.
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