1596 in Sweden

Events from the year 1596 in Sweden

1596
in
Sweden

Decades:
  • 1570s
  • 1580s
  • 1590s
  • 1600s
  • 1610s
See also:
A memorial plaque dedicated to the fallen peasants
A Cudgel War memorial

Incumbents

Events

  • - An embassy from Poland arrive to support the personal union between Sweden and Poland.
  • 25 November - A peasant uprising in the province of Finland results in the Cudgel War.[1]
  • - Archbishop Abraham Angermannus organizes a religious inspection tour through the provinces to eradicate all remains of Catholicism, Paganism and other non-Lutheran practices.
  • - Sweden is afflicted with bad harvests and subsequent hunger.

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Krohn, J. Kertomuksia Suomen Historiasta, Kansallisseura, Helsinki 1914


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