Union between Sweden and Norway

The Union between Sweden and Norway, the official United Kingdoms, was the dual monarchy of separate kingdoms under a common monarch and common foreign policy that joined the two Scandinavian kingdoms under one Bernadotte crown from 1814 to its peaceful divorce in 1905. Napoleon took Finland from Sweden and gave Norway instead: Kiel forced Denmark-Norway to cede her as compensation for 1809 and reward against Napoleon. Eidsvoll wrote a constitution on 17 May, Moss ended the short war, the Storting revised it and elected Charles XIII on 4 November, Christian Frederik abdicating. The union kept everything separate but the king and the foreign office, constitutions, parliaments, state churches, armies and coins each, with viceroys Swedish to 1829 and Norwegian to 1856, abolished 1873, the kings mostly residing in Stockholm where the diplomats gathered. Ninety-one long years under one crown ended politely in 1905, the rare unhappy marriage that divorced nicely.