Count <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I_of_Sweden" id="mwVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Frederick I of Sweden">Frederick of Hesse-Kassel</a> is elected King of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Empire" id="mwVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Swedish Empire">Sweden</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksdag_of_the_Estates" id="mwVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Riksdag of the Estates">Riksdag of the Estates</a>, after his consort <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrika_Eleonora,_Queen_of_Sweden" id="mwWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden">Ulrika Eleonora</a> abdicated the throne on 29 February.<sup about="#mwt71" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_24#cite_note-12" id="mwWQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwWg">[12]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt75" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_24#cite_note-13" id="mwWw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwXA">[13]</span></a></sup>
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