If you wait you may become King of Sweden

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A map of the situation in Germany 1815 after the Vienna Congress TTL. Note that Lauenburg is NOT part of Danish Empire, Sweden is. Swedish Pommerania is aquired by Prussia.
Other states than the Scandinavian Union that hold possessions in the German Confederation:
the Netherlands-Luxemburg, Prussia-Palatinate etc., Britain-Hanover, Austria.

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1819 The first steamship cross the Atlantic and the first steamship come to Denmark.
Riots in Copenhagen directed against Jews are dealt with harshly by the Government.
14 year old H.C. Andersen arrives in Copenhagen.
King Frederick visit Stockholm aboard the Union, former Swedish ship of the line “King Gustav IV Adolf”. This is to show the Kings interest in Sweden. The King is guarded by the newly formed Drabant-Guards clad in the colours of the house of Oldenburg – red and yellow horizontally striped coats and white trousers. This guard consist of only one company but is raised in all three countries among junior officers. They will only do 3 three years service in the Drabant-Guards, but that is going to pave the way for the highest positions. The Swedish Livsdrabanter are disbanded and the Guards regiment takes over their role in Sweden as well as the Norwegian Guards (Liv) Regiment and the Danish Guards regiment are kept as elite regiments in the three countries and as the Kings and Regents Guards, but the Drabant-Guards is in essence the Kings bodyguard, always travelling alongside him in contrast to the Guards regiments that remain in their respective countries.
For most of the years of his reign King Frederick would during summer visit his three capitols.
An army officer’s academy is founded in Stockholm.
A Union command is set up in Stockholm to counter possible Russian assault by way of the Aaland Islands.
All navy officers are trained at the naval academy in Copenhagen dating back to the 1620’ies.
Work is begun on a Union Flag.
The Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenshaft is reacted to by the German Princes after a number of attacks among those the murder of reactionary poet August von Kotzebue. Books and newspapers are to be censured, the Burschenshaft declared illegal and liberal university teachers thrown out of office.
Britain, August 16: The Peterloo massacre in Manchester.
Law on freedom of the Press is passed in France.
 

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1820 Scientist H.C. Ørsted publishes his discovery of electro-magnetism.
In order to strengthen the economy and facilitate inter-union commerce the inter-union currency of “Krone” is introduced. Everybody is to exchange to the new currency. This is a move approved by the three parliaments and the three National Banks. The Scandinavian Union is mostly self sufficient in iron, copper, silver, timber and agricultural produce as well as in possession of a large largely Norwegian fishing fleet and a mostly Danish/Norwegian merchant fleet.
The internal market also mean cheaper guns for the army and navy.
A stock exchange is set up in Kristiania.
The joint war council begin the design of a new Union army uniform based on the colours of the Oldenburg House – red and yellow.
Improvements in farming are spreading from Holstein to Denmark and Scania making for a greater agricultural production and lowering of prices on food stuffs, making for better health public as a result. This is sorely needed as bad harvest in Norrland of Sweden make it necessary to ship grain from Scania and Denmark there to avoid famine.
To improve internal communications a new network of roads paved with cobblestones is begun throughout the Union. The roads are to link up Kristiania and Stockholm and a southern road to Malmö to connect by ship to Copenhagen are also laid down as well as several other roads.
The events in Spain, Portugal and France spark off talks in Sweden of a new constitution and a more democratic Riksdag than the one based on the estates. In Denmark police infiltrate the liberals and J.J. Dampe who argues that the peoples should decide government and the military should aid in that is arrested and sentenced to death. King Frederick changes the capital punishment to life imprisonment.
Pure Quinine is made by French chemists Pierre Joseph Pellitier and Joseph B. Caventou to be used as medicine against malaria in the Scandinavian colonies of the Gold Coast and the West Indies.
 

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1821 The Storting in Kristiania, Norway want to have its own flag for the Kingdom instead of the Danish Dannebrog with a Norwegian Lion in the top corner. As the SwedishKingdom is using the blue flag with the yellow cross Norway also want to display its status as an independent Kingdom in the Union. King Frederick sees this as Norway drifting away from Denmark, but in the end gives in and sign the law. The new flag is a Dannebrog but with a blue cross in the middle (as per OTL) and seeing this, the King is not displeased. He also issues a decree that in the North Atlantic a Dannebrog with a Norwegian lion carrying an axe in the top corner is to be used. The Faeroe Islands displaying a sheep in the lower corner, in Iceland a fish and in Greenland a Polar Bear.
The work on a union flag is still in the early stages, as it is difficult to agree as to how to combine the red, white, blue and yellow. A cross and three golden crowns are to show, but that is about all that is agreeable.
Danish Lieutenant Helmuth von Moltke enters the UnionArmyAcademy in Stockholm.
Revolutionary events in Italy and the Balkans once again put forward the demand in Sweden for a new constitution. The King is able however use the strength of nobility in the estates Riksdag to pull off a no change situation.
The experience of 1820 result in a Government decree of revision of farm lands in Sweden, joining the farmers lands into one or two parcels instead of several thus facilitating the working of the land. The revision was initially met with protest but eventually these voices were silenced as most could see the need for the revision but also as some saw not implementing the revision as the stepping stone for a Danish lead in the Union because of greater agricultural resources. Cereals would win the hearts and minds for Denmark. Potato farming is highly recommended by the Union government.
Death of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The first steamship built of iron in Scotland.
 

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1822 The situation in Latin America and the Caribbean makes the Union dispatch another Marines company aboard warships to signal Union steadfastness.
Henrik Nicolai Clausen, Professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen continue the era of liberalism in Denmark by arguing in private that autocracy must make way for individual freedom as it has already done in Sweden and Norway that is even part of the Scandinavian Union. A change of government is needed to give the three nations one common and free constitution. The words of Clausen are to spread through Danish society in the years to follow and later provide inspiration for men like Orla Lehman and D. G. Monrad in starting the liberal newspaper “The Fatherland” in 1833. Having learnt the lesson of Dr. J.J. Dampe two years previously H.N. Clausen is very careful who he approaches to spread the word.
The Great Powers congress in Verona decides to intervene in Spain. Britain leaves the congress.
The Greek declaration of Independence spurs off a number of Scandinavians as volunteers in the independence war. Some hotheads at the ArmyAcademy fuelled by stories of teachers who came to know the ideals of freedom, liberty and equality during occupation duty in France 1815-18 want to take off, but all servicemen are barred from being granted leave to serve in insurgent forces against a legitimate government.
 

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1823 Lieutenant von Moltke graduates the UnionArmyAcademy and is elected for service in the Drabant-Guards.
President Monroe issues the Monroe doctrine. The Scandinavian Union declare that it is not going to interfere in American affairs but only keep order in its colonies and protect sea lanes of commerce by hunting down pirates of the Caribbean.
French troops moves into Spain to restore King Ferdinand 7. Outraged at this action Swedish newspapers calls for guarantees against misuse by the King of his powers. Parallels are drawn to King Frederick’s autocracy by Danes writing in the Swedish papers who also name King Frederick a Tsarist puppet. Field Marshall von Fersen swears loyalty towards the King and asks to be given orders to mobilize against the Revolution. Frederick calms his enraged Field Marshal but silently have the names of writers from the editors by referring to Union security and in a number of quiet trials the writers are sentenced to take up residence in the colonies for life. This action is quietly referred to St. Petersburg to calm a more than fuming Tsar.
As the price on grain is going for an all time low taxes are lowered to make farmers able to pay them.
 

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1824 In a way to take the heat off the liberals in Sweden the Danish/Norwegian law of basic education is forced through the Swedish Riksdag making for every 7 to 14 year old to attend school. The law is seen by the nobility as a means of spreading the revolution by making the peasants (and workers) able to read and write, but the liberals hails it as a step of progress for the peoples of the Scandinavian Union.
A second burst of articles against the autocracy of Denmark are written by Danes in Norwegian and Swedish newspapers not being subject to the censorship of Denmark. The King use his well tried formula of the security of the Union this time to suppress the Norwegian and Swedish newspapers, but they keep re-appearing under new names.
The action of King Frederick does little to calm the Tsar’s irritation over the spread of liberalist and revolutionary ideas in Scandinavia.
Repeal in Britain of the Combination Act.
Death of Louis 18th. Charles X is new King of France.
The Ashanti on the Gold Coast goes to war against the British. The Scandinavian Governor at FortChristiansborg is asked to support the British and does so. The Ashanti is defeated by a joint British-Scandinavian-Akim force, the Akim being allies of the Scandinavian Union.
It is decided to speed up the process of making a Union flag to get some rally point for all subjects of the Union apart from the King himself. A proposal is submitted to the King late in the year.
Proposed Union flag:

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paxau

Nice flag simple but yet good looking.
Not always easy to get a flag to look good when uniting several kingdoms.
 

AuroraBorealis

paxau said:
Nice flag simple but yet good looking.
Not always easy to get a flag to look good when uniting several kingdoms.
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A very nice flag....but if your accepting alternate proposals...

Something that would reflect more equality of its Eastern (Sweden/Finland) portions with the Western (Danish/Norwegian) portions. Extend the Dannebrog Cross fully across and give it the Panamanian look with the Red and Blue across the Diagonal instead. Place the 3 Crowns in the upper Blue or Red Canton ( depending on what you end up with colour wise in the Canton). Alternatively, on a Heraldic shield on the centre of the Cross as with so many European Flags. Royalist Spain, Portugal, Austria and Hungary come to mind, or in one of the larger Red or Blue portions of the Dannebrog (bottom or top your choice). Just a few suggestions as counter proposals.
 

arctic warrior

paxau said:
Nice flag simple but yet good looking.
Not always easy to get a flag to look good when uniting several kingdoms.
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AuroraBorealis said:
A very nice flag....but if your accepting alternate proposals...

Something that would reflect more equality of its Eastern (Sweden/Finland) portions with the Western (Danish/Norwegian) portions. Extend the Dannebrog Cross fully across and give it the Panamanian look with the Red and Blue across the Diagonal instead. Place the 3 Crowns in the upper Blue or Red Canton ( depending on what you end up with colour wise in the Canton). Alternatively, on a Heraldic shield on the centre of the Cross as with so many European Flags. Royalist Spain, Portugal, Austria and Hungary come to mind, or in one of the larger Red or Blue portions of the Dannebrog (bottom or top your choice). Just a few suggestions as counter proposals.
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Thanks for your proposals - they'll be part of the final choice. I have a feeling that some of the leading figures of the Union might find this proposal too Tricolore looking, field marshal Von Fersen come to mind.:)
 

Scurck

arctic warrior said:
That one would equal Denmark and Sweden. But I'll stick with the three crowns - its imperative for a Scandinavian Union.
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The three crowns are THE Swedish arms.
So putting that on the union flag would mean Sweden rules the union.

This is an old united Scandinavia flag of mine.

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arctic warrior

Scurck said:
The three crowns are THE Swedish arms.
So putting that on the union flag would mean Sweden rules the union.

This is an old united Scandinavia flag of mine.
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It's also an old Danish coat of arms, at least one of our wars were foughts over the right to show it off.
Putting it on the union flag show unity of the three Kingdoms.
 

Scurck

After the Kalmar union you Danes stole it and put it in your own greater national arms to show that you had some claim to Sweden.

But of course, if the union decides to put the Swedish national arms on the flag i guess not many Swedes would complain. ;)

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AuroraBorealis

Scurck said:
After the Kalmar union you Danes stole it and put it in your own greater national arms to show that you had some claim to Sweden.

But of course, if the union decides to put the Swedish national arms on the flag i guess not many Swedes would complain. ;)
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Well since the 3 crown motif is to represent 3 kingdoms, it really doesn't matter where it originates, as long as the meaning and symbolism is clear.

That said, I rather like your crowns better.

and the flag is not so bad either...

Maybe without the Heraldic shield of any kind just the crowns in the canton.

though the symbolism I was trying to get at was one embracing Crown for the 3 constituent Kingdoms. I think that is still the message you would want to convey. Perhaps using your 3 crown motif and incorporating it as the lower portion of the Heraldic shield
 
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