What the records say
- When
- 16 Apr 1520
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 59.86° N, 17.64° E
- Description
- 1520 battle
Battle of Uppsala
Battle in the Dano-Swedish War
The Battle of Uppsala also called the Battle of Good Friday was a bloody battle between the Danish mercenary army and a Swedish peasant army in Uppsala during the Dano-Swedish War (1512-1520). It was the bloodiest battle in the Dano-Swedish war, with casualties in the thousands.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Swedish defeat outside Uppsala”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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