May 12 in Swedish History

Oscar II is crowned in Storkyrkan, Stockholm. 

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  King Oscar II succeeded his brother Charles XV/IV on 18 September 1872, and was crowned as king of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on 18 July 1873.

• May 12 in Swedish History
  1873: Oscar II is crowned in Storkyrkan, Stockholm. It is a mere eight months after the first Nordstjernan-Interactive from the start was printed in September, 1872.

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  King Oscar II

• King Oscar thus becomes the last Swedish regent to be crowned, as his successor Gustav V refrains from a coronation, thereby creating a new Swedish tradition. Oscar was born in 1829, the third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. Through his mother, he was a descendent of Gustav Vasa. In 1957, he married Princess Sophia Wilhelmina, and the couple had four children: King Gustaf V, Prince Oscar, Prince Carl and Prince Eugèn. The king allegedly also had several extramarital children, among them popular actress Anna Hoffman-Uddgren. King Oscar II died in 1907.

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  This 1875 painting by Knud Bergslien (1827–1908) depicts the later coronation of Oscar II to King of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim. The coronation was July 18, 1873. Oscar II remained King of Norway until Norway became independent, in November, 1905, followed by King Haakon VII

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