In 1809 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden was suddenly removed from office in a coup d'état and his uncle was appointed to administer the country.
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1809 was the birth year of modern Swedish constitutional monarchy, as the Constitution of 1809 returned Sweden to parliamentarism and put an end to the enlightened absolutism that Gustav III had introduced through a coup d'état in 1772.
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