On This Day
1397 – The Kalmar Union is formed under the rule of Margaret I of Denmark.
The Kalmar Union (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish: Kalmarunionen; Latin: Unio Calmariensis) was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden, that from 1397 to 1523[1] joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including most of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway’s overseas colonies[N 1] (then including Iceland, Greenland,[N 2] the Faroe Islands, and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland). The union was not quite continuous; there were several short interruptions. Legally, the countries remained separate sovereign states. However, their domestic and foreign policies were directed by a common monarch. Gustav Vasa’s election as King of Sweden on 6 June 1523, and his triumphant entry into Stockholm eleven days later, marked Sweden’s final secession from the Kalmar Union.[2] Formally, the Danish king acknowledged Sweden’s independence in 1524 at the Treaty of Malmö.
Born On This Day
1865 – Susan La Flesche Picotte, Native American physician (d. 1915)
Susan La Flesche Picotte (June 17, 1865 – September 18, 1915, Omaha)[1] was a Native American doctor and reformer in the late 19th century. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Native Americans to earn a medical degree.[2] She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe.
Picotte was an active social reformer as well as a physician. She worked to discourage drinking on the reservation where she worked as the physician, as part of the temperance movement of the 19th century. Picotte also campaigned to prevent and treat tuberculosis, which then had no cure, as part of a public health campaign. She also worked to help other Omaha navigate the bureaucracy of the Office of Indian Affairs and receive the money owed to them for the sale of their land.
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