1597 in Sweden

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The regent duke Charles (later king Charles IX) insulting the corpse of Clas Eriksson Fleming in presence of the Dowager-Governor of Åbo, Ebba Stenbock. Albert Edelfelt’s painting, 1878.

Events from the year 1597 in Sweden

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchSigismund

Events[]

  • February 24 - End of the Cudgel War.[1]
  • - Bad harvests again cause famine.
  • - The confirm Duke Charles as regent, and the loyalists of the King flees to Poland.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • January 27 - Jacob Ilkka, rebel leader of the Cudgel war (born 1545)
  • 13 April - Klaus Fleming, admiral and governor (born 1535)
  • 19 July - Gunilla Bielke, queen (born 1568)
  • 20 November - Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, princess (born 1549)
  • 11 November - Gustav of Saxe-Lauenburg, prince (born 1570)

References[]

  1. ^ H. Ylikangas, Nuijasota, 1977, ny uppl. 1996, sv. övers. K.: det blodiga bondekriget i Finland 1596-97, 1999


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