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1696 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1696 in Sweden
Incumbents
Monarch – Charles XI
Events
June 2015
The Velthen Company perform in Stockholm.
A repeated failed harvest results in the culmination and continuation of the Great Famine.Topelius, Zacharias (1899). ”Stora hungersnöden”. Fältskärns berättelser. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers förlag. P. 388-399
Kalmar Nation at Lund University is first mentioned.
Andreas Rudman and Erik Björck set sail in August of 1696 for America, with the intention of becoming ministers to congregations within the former colony of New Sweden and they arrived in early 1897. They brought with them translated copies of numerous religious texts.399 (Svenska män och kvinnor : biografisk uppslagsbok / 6. P-Sheldon) https://runeberg.org/smok/6/0437.html 2024-07-31 runeberg.org svAcrelius Israel A History of New Sweden Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1876 366 Reynolds William Morton
Births
June 2015
- Henrietta Polyxena of Vasaborg, princess (died 1777)
6 June – Peter Spaak, Swedish Protestant reformer (d. 1769)
22 July – Eric Julius Biörner, Swedish scholar and historian (d. 1750)
Deaths
March - Jean de la Vallée, architect (born 1620)
June - Greta Duréel, accomplice in the Great Jewel Fraud of the Swedish National Bank (birth year unknown)
15 April – Johan Makeléer, 2nd Baronet, Swedish justice and member of the Gothenburg Court of Justice (b. 1636)
References
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