Charles XIII of Sweden

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Charles XIII ( Karl XIII ) (October 7th 1748 - February 5th 1818), was king of Sweden of 1809 and king of Norway (under the name of Charles II ) of 1814 until its death.

Named regent after the assassination of Gustave III, his brother (1792), it had been withdrawn, in the majority of its nephew Gustave IV in 1796, and lived as a ordinary person, when in 1809, in consequence of the revolution which reversed the new king at the time of a putsch organized by the officers and the civils servant, it was placed itself on the throne. Hitherto duke of Sudermanie, it was proclaimed king de Suède on June 6th, 1809, under the name of Charles XIII. The following day, all the civil civils servant and soldiers lent faith and homage to him. With its advent it made peace with the France, the Russia and the Denmark. A new constitution, more liberal was promulgated.

However, a few years afterwards, it had to support a war with the Denmark about the Norway; it conquered this province and definitively annexed it in its States; it was ensured to him after the events of 1814. Not having children, it had adopted for successor the Danish prince, Christian August d' Augustenborg; this young prince having died (1810) starting a new political crisis, the French general Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was selected to replace it, and became crown prince.

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