1579 in Sweden

Events from the year 1579 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – John III

Events

• Princess Cecilia of Sweden is exiled to Germany.
• Sweden is struck by the plague.

Births

• Johannes Messenius, historian, dramatist and university professor (died 1636)

Deaths

• Laurentius Petri Gothus, Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala (born year unknown)

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