1716 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1716 in Sweden

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchCharles XII

Events[]

  • February – Charles XII gives Georg Heinrich von Görtz the responsibility of internal affairs.
  • 8 April – Swedish Wismar is taken.
  • 6 September – Charles XII makes Lund his base.
  • - Suecia antiqua et hodierna by Erik Dahlbergh.

Births[]

  • 30 January - Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, architect (died 1796)
  • - Pehr Kalm, botanist, naturalist (died 1779)
  • - Karl Gustaf Ekeberg, explorer (died 1784)
  • - Anna Margareta Salmelin, war heroine (died 1789)

Deaths[]

  • - Carl Piper, politician (born 1647)

References[]


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