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This may seem like a gigant Swedish wank if you belive that what happens in chapter 1 is the tone of the story. But maybe some other part of Europe will get more fortunate. Also, this is just 1600ths and not nationalistic 1800s

Butterflies will come into effect, but i can give you a hint: Peter of Russia, August the strong of Saxony/Poland and Charles XII will be born like OTL.

I will NOT wank Sweden like in my first TL about Sweden winning at Poltava.

Chapter 1.

King Charles of Sweden was nervous. He had managed to reach Sjalland after a risky move by bringing his force over the ice that shielded to Danish capital. Now he hoped it wouldn’t begin to thaw. He was now within striking range of Copenhagen, and yet the Danes hadn’t reacted to him. The storm clouds were over his head and the snow fell. He decided to strike the capital.

Were were the Danish defenders? In shock. The Danish king had sent out two men to get buy time by pretending to negotiate peace, but one of them had died when his horse fell and the other one fell down a cliff.

The ragtag force that was the Swedish army moved fast and soon was soon in sight of Copenahgen. A city covered in fear. To prevent the Swedes from taking the city the king of Denmark, Fredrick III, didn’t have time to ask for volunteers but took what he had, 1000 men and 2 guns from the garrison to put up a fight so that Copenhagen wouldn’t surrender without a fight.

What followed was a fight for a few minutes, but what followed was the end of Denmark as a competitor to Sweden. When the Swedish force saw the defenders in front of the city Charles sent forward the 500 Finnish horsemen and 1500 infantry. As the Finnish horsemen moved to flank the defenders the infantry walked straight towards the Danes. Many defenders threw down their muskets and ran away without a shot. A few of the Danes, those who were closest to the king, tried to fight, but they were cut down by a single volley from the attackers. Among those killed was Fredrik III.

The last defenders crushed and Copenhagen open for plunder and Charles didn’t waste time. The cavalry was sent to burn the ships of the Danish navy as it laid frozen in the harbor. The livgarde(guard) was sent to the royal palace with the dead Danish king. The rest of the troops were to secure the city and take everything they could.

Within a day Copenhagen was plundered, around 5 000 civilians were killed, “They made a desert and called it peace” as a English representative said. Denmark surrendered to the will of Charles X of Sweden. Denmark tried to get help from the Netherlands since they had a pact, but they said that the treaty was a defensive one and Denmark had started the war.

The peacetreaty in the end was quite harsh for Denmark(OTL peace treaty with regards to Skane, Blekinge, Halland, Bohuslan) with their Eastern half given to Sweden, and that Norway would become independent. Everything south of Trondheim was to become the kingdom of Norway along with Iceland, Greenland and the Faeroe islands. The new king of Norway would be the brother of Charles X of Sweden, Adolf Johan.

When the news spread around Europe the enemies of Sweden paused. Poland and Brandenburg had assembled an army to retake Jylland and help Denmark but as soon as the news spread their interest vanished.

Charles wasn’t satisfied even though he had won the war but wanted more. His closest advisors tried to talk him out of going to any more wars and make peace with the enemies Sweden had since the nation was tired of war and the debt was massive. The French ambassador came up with a suggestion. A conference somewere in Germany just as the peace of Westfalia a decade ago. The Swedish king and advisors realized that this wasn’t a bad idea.

In August of 1658 the conference opened in Berlin. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, various German states, Poland and Austria was present. The most important issue was Denmark that was leaderless since the crown prince had died in the struggle for Copenhagen, struck down by an angry mob as the population wanted to get their frustration out of someone and struck down the first person they saw. The younger son Georg, 3 years, was under protection by royal guards mixed with Swedish troops.

Treaty of Berlin
The treaty of Berlin as it was going to be called meant the end of Denmark as a sovereign state. The Duchy of Holstein got the entire Jylland Peninsula. The rest of Denmark was given to Sweden as a wedding present as the children Ulrika Elonora and prince Charles of Sweden was engaged to be married when Ulrika Elonora turned 15 years. In exchange for that Sweden lowered the Oresundtoll by half for all nations, thus avoiding war with the Netherlands who had big trade intrests in Ostersjon. Sweden ceded Swedish Pomerania south of the river Peene and east of the river Peenestrom to Brandenburg, including the islands of Usedom and Wollin, and the towns of Stettin , Damm and Gollnow to bribe Brandenburg to allow them to take Denmark.(happened OTL after the Great Nordic war) Peace between Sweden and Poland, Austria and Russia was as OTL in 1660(but in 1658 instead). Prince Georg of Denmark was given the island of Bornholm and it was renamed Duchy of Bornholm and his mother would be the duchess until he came of age. Little did the winners Sweden know that they created something that eventually would come back to haunt them.

Treaty of Halden
In December of 1658 the treaty of Halden was announced. It was basically that Norway and Sweden were two separate nations and that Norway no longer existed north of Trondheim. Norway and Sweden formed a military alliance. Unfortunally the treaty didn’t specify what would happen if one of the kingdoms suddenly lacked a male heir. This would be a problem later. The trading posts Denmark had in India were handed to Norway to get some income.

On December 24 1658 Charles rode into Stockholm while fireworks shot up in the sky. Denmark was no more and Sweden now had peace. Charles didn’t know what to do next, but he had spent almost the entire time as king in the field. Maybe he should deal with other problems in Sweden. He needed a way to increase the crowns income and he knew how to make it so, reduction of the nobilities holdings.

Situation in Scandinavia on New years eve of 1658 was that Sweden was bigger than ever before and very powerfull. But behind the hard crust was a poor nation. Norway was its own nation for the first time in hundreds of years. The population along the border felt more secure as the treaty of Halden basically ended the wars between Norway and Sweden that had devastated the border region. Denmark was now Swedish territory and when the new laws from Sweden came the lower classes didn’t object to much since farmers had much more to say in Sweden than they had in Denmark. Schleswig-Holstein had gotten Jylland, but it was ravaged by war and would need lots of time to recover.

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