Charles XI of Sweden

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Charles XI ( Karl XI ) (November 24th 1655 - April 5th 1697) of Sweden of 1660 to its death was king.

When his/her father Charles X dies he was still minor. He was recognized king in 1660, being only five years old. The Treated of Oliwa, concluded in 1660 by the council from regency, finished the war undertaken by Charles X, and ensured Sweden a considerable extension of territory. The years which preceded its majority were remembered, as at the time of the minority of Christine, by a seizure of the aristocracy on the businesses of the country.

Charles started to control by itself in 1672; as allied of the France of Louis XIV, Sweden beat in several meetings Christian V of Denmark, king de Danemark, who had declared the war to him, but had, in 1674, to take share with the war against the Brandenbourg, which showed humiliating demolished of the Swedes with Ferhbellin (1675). The Denmark benefitted from it to invade the Scanie. In 1679 a peace favorable and advantageous in Sweden was signed under the patronage of Louis XIV.

Charles benefitted from the dissatisfaction with the population towards the nobility to obtain in 1680 an almost unlimited capacity. Declared absolute monarch by the assembled States (1680), it did not deal any more but with the care to improve the interior administration of its kingdom: it was devoted to the financial reforms and administrative, aiming before all the creation of an economic base for the maintenance of the army.

He died in 1697. This monarch left with his son a flourishing kingdom, a sizeable army and a fleet, and a treasure such as had never had any sovereign of North of it. He encouraged the trade, and protected sciences, the letters and arts: one owes him the foundation of the port of Carlscrona and the Université of Lund.

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