Christina (16281689)

Christina, queen of Sweden, daughter and only child of Gustavus Adolphus; received a masculine education, and was trained in manly exercises; governed the country well, and filled her court with learned men, but by-and-by her royal duties becoming irksome to her, she declared her cousin as her successor, resigned the throne, and turned Catholic; her cousin dying, she claimed back her crown, but her subjects would not now have her; she stayed for a time in France, but was obliged to leave; retired to Rome, where she spent 20 years of her life engaged in scientific and artistic studies, and died (16281689).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Christie, William Henry Mahoney * Christina, Maria
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Christchurch
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Christian Connection
Christian King, the Most
Christian Knowledge, Society for Promoting
Christiania
Christianity
Christiansand
Christie, William Henry Mahoney
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Christina, Maria
Christison, Sir Robert
Christmas
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Christophe, Henri
Christopher, St.
Christopher North
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Christ's Hospital
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Christina in Chalmer’s 1812 Dictionary of Biography