Uppsala Cathedral is the largest church in Scandinavia and the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, the head of the Church of Sweden. Its construction began in the late thirteenth century in the French Gothic style, in the city that was the religious centre of Sweden, and took about a century and a half to complete. The cathedral was for a long time the place where Swedish kings were crowned, and it contains the tombs of several monarchs, including Gustav Vasa, the founder of modern Sweden, as well as of the scientist Carl Linnaeus and the thinker Emanuel Swedenborg. It was damaged by a great fire in 1702 and restored in the nineteenth century. Its two towers dominate the Uppsala skyline.
Before and after
- 1283Origins of Harlech Castle
- 8 July 1283Battle of Malta
- from 27 August 1283 to 1 February 1286Aragonese Crusade
- 1287Birth of William of Ockham
- 1287Construction of Uppsala Cathedral
- from March 1289 to April 1289Fall of Tripoli
- from 1290 to 1320Khalji dynasty
- 1291Construction of Strängnäs Cathedral
- from 4 April 1291 to 18 May 1291Siege of Acre
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