1623 in Sweden

Events from the year 1623 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustaf II Adolf

Events

• Åbo (Turku) hovrätt is created as the court of appeal in the Swedish province of Finland.
• Johannes Rudbeck founds Rudbeckianska Gymnasiet, the first gymnasium in Sweden.
• Sweden places a blockade on Danzig in fear of it being used for a Polish attack on Sweden.
• Stockholm is tormented by the plague.
• The city street trade outside the guilds, MÃ¥nglare, is regulated by permit which are only to be issued to people in need of support and by regulations set to protect the monopoly of the guilds.

Births

• 16 July – Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, diplomat (died 1702)

Deaths

References