Oslo - Norway's capital

The capital of Norway, Oslo did. The last king of independent Norway Haakon V Magnusson (1299 - 1319), after which power passed to his descendants of the Swedish dynasty. He also laid the Akershus Fortress, the first in the history of Norwegian castle of brick and stone, in which he was buried. The city quickly grew rich and built. In 1349 an epidemic of bubonic plague devastated Oslo on its extent and says that killed almost all the elite of the country: of all the bishops still alive but the Bishop of Oslo. In 1389 Mr. Queen Margrethe I united all Scandinavia under the authority of one of the crown, and in 1397 i was struck so-called Kalmar Union. In the same year inherited the throne of Eric VII of Pomerania moved the capital of Copenhagen. However, Oslo is still an important political and economic center. Since 1572 Mr. here is the center of the Danish administration in Norway. When in 1624 the Oslo burned to the ground, the Danish King Christian IV, is very fond of Norway, who personally took up the restoration. At the foot of the Akershus Fortress, a new city, which gets the name Christiania course, in honor of the king, who even personally made the project. Thus, in the streets Kvadraturen still retained the old image of the royal plan. The King ordered that henceforth built stone houses and even gave money to build the Town Hall (old), in front of her now stands as a monument to the royal gloves, which, according to legend, Christian threw the future site of the city. In 1814 Christiania was declared the capital of Norway. In 1854 the city came the first railway in the same time, there was a rise of national art. Norwegian culture decorated names Munch, Grieg, Ibsen, who worked in Oslo. In 1905, Christiania became the capital of the independent-Norway to the throne under the name Haakon VII ascends the Danish prince. And in 1924 the city returned to its old name of Oslo. The main street of Oslo, Karl-street - Johan, named in honor of the King of Sweden (the former Napoleonic Marshal Bernadotte), on whose orders the palace was built by Norwegian kings. Historic Centre of Oslo and Akershus Fortress.