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{{Infobox former country
| conventional_long_name                = {{Collapsible list 
|title= <center>Kalmar Union</center> 
|<small><center>
<center>{{lang|da|'''Kalmarunionen'''}} {{in lang|da|no|sv}}</center><center>{{lang|fi|'''Kalmarin unioni'''}} {{in lang|fi}}</center><center>{{lang|is|'''Kalmarsambandið'''}} {{in lang|is}}</center><center>{{lang|kl|'''Kalmar unioni'''}} {{in lang|kl}}</center><center>{{lang|fo|'''Kalmarsamveldið'''}} {{in lang|fo}}</center><center>{{lang|la|'''Unio Calmariensis'''}} {{in lang|la}}</center></center></small>}}
| common_name                = Kalmar Union
| region                = Scandinavia
| era                = Late Middle Ages
| status                = State union
| status_text                = [[Personal union]]
| today                = {{plainlist}}
* {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Denmark]]
** {{flagicon|Faroe Islands}} [[Faroe Islands]]
** {{flagicon|Greenland}} [[Greenland]]
* {{flagicon|Iceland}} [[Iceland]]
* {{flagicon|Norway}} [[Norway]]
* {{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Sweden]]
* {{flagicon|Finland}} [[Finland]] {{smallsup|b}}
** {{flagicon|Åland}} [[Åland]]
* {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]{{smallsup|b}}
** {{flagicon|Shetland}} [[Shetland]]
** {{flagicon|Orkney Islands}} [[Orkney]]
* {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Germany]]{{smallsup|b}}
** {{flagicon|Schleswig-Holstein}} [[Schleswig-Holstein|Schleswig]]
* {{flagicon|Russia}} [[Russia]]{{smallsup|b}}
** {{flagicon|Karelia}} [[Karelia]]
{{endplainlist}}
| year_start                = 1397
| year_end                = 1523|
| event_start                = 
| date_start                = 17 June
| event1                = Engelbrekt rebellion
| date_event1                = 1434–36
| event2                = Stockholm Bloodbath
| date_event2                = November 1520
| event3                = [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav Vasa]] elected King of Sweden
| date_event3                = 6 June 1523
| event4                = the Danish ''[[Rigsråd]]'' annexes Norway
| date_event4                = 1536
| event_post                = Treaty of Kiel
| date_post                = 14 January 1814|
| p1                = Denmark
| flag_p1                = Flag of Denmark.svg
| p2                = Hereditary Kingdom of Norway
| flag_p2                = Royal Standard of Norway.svg
| p3                = History of Sweden (800–1521)
| flag_p3                = Flag of Sweden.svg
| s1                = Denmark–Norway
| flag_s1                = Flag of Denmark.svg
| s2                = History of Sweden (1523–1611)
| flag_s2                = Flag of Sweden.svg
| image_flag                = Flag of the Kalmar Union.svg
| image_coat                = Armoiries medievales d Eric de Poméranie 1382-1459.svg
| flag_type                = Flag (in use by 1430)
| symbol_type                = Arms of Eric of Pomerania
| image_map                = Kalmar Union ca. 1400.svg
| image_map_caption                = |
| common_languages                = Official use: [[Middle Danish]], [[Old Swedish]], [[Renaissance Latin]]<br>Also spoken: [[Middle Low German]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Karelian language|Karelian]], [[Middle Norwegian]], [[Middle Icelandic]], [[Norn language|Norn]], [[Sami languages]], [[Greenlandic language|Greenlandic]] [[Greenlandic Norse]]
| capital                = [[Copenhagen]] (from 1443)
| religion                = Roman Catholicism
| government_type                = [[Personal union]]
| title_leader                = [[List of Kalmar Union monarchs|Regent]]
| leader1                = [[Eric of Pomerania]] <small>(first)</small>
| year_leader1                = 1387–1412{{smallsup|a}}
| leader2                = [[Christian II of Denmark|Christian II]] <small>(last)</small>
| year_leader2                = 1524–33
| currency                = [[Mark (money)|Mark]], [[Örtug]], [[Öre]], [[Swedish penning]]
| legislature                = ''[[Riksråd]]'' and ''Herredag'' (one in each kingdom)|
| footnote_a                = Margaret I ruled Denmark between 1387–1412 and Norway between 1388–1389. She also ruled Sweden between 1389–1412
| footnote_b                = Parts of these countries today. Back then they belonged to the three main countries of the Kalmar Union; Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
}}

The '''Kalmar Union''' was a royal [[personal union]] consisting of the kingdoms of [[Denmark]], [[Norway]] and [[Sweden]], and various other provinces and areas.  At that time, Norway included [[Iceland]], [[Greenland]], the [[Faroe Islands]], [[Jan Mayen]], [[Shetland]], and [[Orkney]].  Parts of [[Finland]] belonged to Sweden. The union was started in 1397 when Eric of Pomerania was crowned in the town of [[Kalmar]] in Sweden. The union ended on [[6 June]] [[1523]] when Sweden left the union by [[Gustav I of Sweden|Gustav I]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Sweden.html|title=Sweden|publisher=World Statesmen|language=English|accessdate=18 January 2015}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Other page==
*[[Stockholm Bloodbath]]


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[[Category:History of Denmark]]
[[Category:History of Norway]]
[[Category:History of Sweden]]
[[Category:History of Finland]]
[[Category:1390s establishments]]
[[Category:14th-century establishments in Europe]]
[[Category:1520s disestablishments]]
[[Category:Disestablishments in Europe]]