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OSCAR I . (1799-1859), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Sweden and See also:Norway, was the son of Genera+ Bernadotte, afterwards King See also:Charles XIV. of Sweden, and his wife, See also:Eugenie Desiree Clary, afterwards See also:Queen Desideria. When, in See also:August 18ro, Bernadotte was elected See also:crown See also:prince of Sweden, Oscar and his See also:mother removed from See also:Paris to See also:Stockholm (See also:June 1811). From Charles XIII. the lad received the See also:title of See also:duke of Sodermanland (Sudermania). He quickly acquired the See also:Swedish See also:language, and, by the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he reached manhood, had become a See also:general favourite. His very considerable native talents were See also:developed by an excellent See also:education, and he soon came to be regarded as an authority on all social-See also:political questions. In 1839 he wrote a See also:series of articles on popular education, and (in 1841) an See also:anonymous See also:work, Om Siraff och straffanstalter, advocating See also:prison reforms. Twice during his See also:father's lifetime he was See also:viceroy of Norway. On the 19th of June 1823 he married the princess See also:Josephine, daughter of See also:Eugene de See also:Beauharnais, duke of Leuchtenberg, and See also:grand-daughter of the empress Josephine. In 1838 the king began to suspect his See also:heir of plotting with the Liberal party to bring about a See also:change of See also:ministry, or even his own See also:abdication. If Oscar did not actively assist the Opposition on this occasion, his disapprobation of his father's despotic behaviour was notorious, though he avoided an actual rupture. Yet his liberalism was of the most cautious and moderate See also:character, as the Opposition, shortly after his See also:accession (See also:March 8th, 1844), discovered to their See also:great chagrin. He would not hear of any See also:radical reform of the cumbrous and obsolete constitution. But one of his earliest See also:measures was to establish freedom of the See also:press. Most of the legislation during Oscar I.'s reign aimed at improving the economic position of Sweden, and the riksdag, in its address to him in 1857, rightly declared that he had promoted the material prosperity of the See also:kingdom more than any of his predecessors. In See also:foreign affairs Oscar I. was a friend of the principle of See also:nationality. In 1848 he supported See also:Denmark against See also:Germany; placed Swedish and See also:Norwegian troops in cantonments in Ftinen and See also:North See also:Schleswig (1849—185o); and mediated the truce of See also:Malmo (August 26th, 1848). He was also one of the guarantors of the integrity of Denmark (See also:London See also:protocol, May 8th, 1852). As See also:early as 185o Oscar I. had conceived the See also:plan of a dynastic See also:union of the three See also:northern kingdoms, but such difficulties presented themselves that the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme had to be abandoned. He succeeded, however, in See also:reversing his father's obsequious policy towards See also:Russia. His fear lest Russia should demand a stretch of See also:coast along the Varanger See also:Fjord induced him to remain neutral during the See also:Crimean,See also:War, and, subsequently, to conclude an See also:alliance with Great See also:Britain and See also:France (See also:November 25th, 1855) for preserving the territorial integrity of Scandinavia. Oscar I. See also:left four sons, of whom two, Carl (Charles XV.) and Oskar Fredrik (Oscar II.), succeeded to his See also:throne.
See T. Almen, See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen Bernadotte (Stockholm, 1896); and C. E. Akrell, Minnen fran Calls XIV., Oscars I. och Carls XV. Lagar (Stockholm, 1884, 1885). Also NORWAY (See also:history) and SWEDEN (history).
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