The Catholic Faith Abolished--The Church Ordinance--Norway declared a Danish Province--Robbing the Norwegian Churches 250
The Northern Seven Years' War--Battle of Svarteraa--Throndhjem taken by the Swedes--Burning of Oslo--Sarpsborg Burned--Peace at Stettin--Misrule in Norway--Erik Munk Deposed and Imprisoned--City of Fredericksstad Founded 252
The Popular King--Frequent Visits to Norway--The Laws Improved--War with Sweden--The Scotch War--Colonel Sinclair Killed--Peace at Knaeröd--The Peace of Lubeck--Second War with Sweden--Peace at Bromsebro--The Hannibal's Feud--The City of Christiania 255
FREDERICK III. (1648-1670)--ABSOLUTISM INTRODUCED (1660)
The last Royal Charter--War with Sweden--The Krabbe War--Peace at Roskilde--The Peace broken by the Swedish King--Siege of Halden--Peace of Copenhagen--The King's Revolution--Absolutism Introduced--Kort Adeler 261
Extravagance at Court--German Manners Introduced--A new Nobility--Peter (Schumacher) Griffenfeld--The Scania War--The Gyldenlöve Feud--A new Code of Laws 267
War with the Duke of Holstein--The Great Northern War (1709-1720)--Naval Battle in Kjögebugt--Charles XII. Invades Norway--The Heroic Anna Kolbjörnsdatter--King Charles at Frederickshald--Peter and Hans Kolbjörnson--Peter Wessel Tordenskiold--The Battle of Dynekilen--King Charles XII. Killed before Frederickssteen--The Peace of Fredericksborg--The Sale of Norwegian Church Property--Hans Egede, Greenland's Apostle 272
Pietism and Hypocrisy--Confirmation Introduced--Improvement in Popular Education--Famine in Norway--Ludvig Holberg--Erik Pontoppidan 281
More Liberal Christianity--Luxury at Court--An "Extra Tax"--Revolt in Bergen--Promotion of Science and Art 284
Johan Frederick Struensee--Reforms without Preparation--Struensee Executed--The Guldberg Period--Prosperity in Norway--Crown Prince Frederick as Regent--The Bernstorf Ministry--The "Armed Neutrality"--Naval Battle at Copenhagen, 1801--The Peace of Tilsit--Bombardment of Copenhagen, 1807--The Norwegian "Government Commission" 286
War with Sweden--Battles at Lier, Toverud, Trangen, and Prestebakke--Armistice, December, 1808--Gustavus IV. Deposed--Christian August becomes Crown Prince of Sweden--Peace of Jönköping--The Society for Norway's Welfare--The University of Norway--Famine and Distress in Norway 293