1654 in Sweden

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Consummation ceremony after the wedding of King Carl Gustav and Queen Hedwig Eleanor in 1654.
Porträtt, Grevinnan Beata Elisabeth von Königsmarck, 1654

Events from the year 1654 in Sweden.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch - Christina then Charles X Gustav

Events[]

  • April - The 1654 Anglo-Swedish alliance is forged to offset the Danish-Dutch alliance.[1]
  • 6 June - Charles X Gustav succeeds his cousin Christina on the Swedish throne. After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.
  • 24 October - The wedding between Charles X Gustav and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 25 January - Ebba Mauritzdotter Leijonhufvud, courtier (born 1595)
  • 28 August - Axel Oxenstierna, politician (born 1583)
  • Louise van der Nooth, courtier (born 1630s)

References[]

  1. ^ Davenport, Frances Gardiner; Paullin, Charles Oscar (2004), European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., p. 43, ISBN 1-58477-422-3


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