1596 in Sweden

Events from the year 1596 in Sweden

Years in Sweden:	1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599
Centuries:	15th century · 16th century · 17th century
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Years:	1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 1599

A memorial plaque dedicated to the fallen peasants

A Cudgel War memorial

Incumbents

• Monarch – Sigismund

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.
• - 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

• 1 January - Elizabeth Ribbing, morganatic consort of prince Carl Philip (died 1662)
• - Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, princess (died 1618)
• - Andreas Virginius, nobleman from Pomerania invited by King Gustav II in 1631
• - Johan Banér, Field Marshal and soldier in the Thirty Years War (died 1641)
• - Ebba Brahe, love interest of King Gustavus Adolphus (died 1674)

Deaths

• - Karin Hansdotter, royal lover (born 1539)
• 13 February - Charles II, the tenth overall and fourth York monarch