Union & Independence · event 8 of 10

1905

The union dissolved. After a constitutional crisis, Norway dissolves the union with Sweden peacefully. The referendum goes 368,208 to 184. A second vote chooses monarchy over republic, and a Danish prince arrives as Haakon VII.

The Union & Independence era

  1. 1814
  2. 1825
  3. 1854
  4. 1866
  5. 1888
  6. 1893
  7. 1899
  8. 1905
  9. 1911
  10. 1913

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