1630 in Sweden

Events from the year 1630 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustaf II Adolf

Events

• June 6 – Swedish warships depart from Stockholm for Germany.
• July 6 – Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War begins when King Gustav Adolf of Sweden, leading an army of 13,000 on the protestant side, makes landfall at Peenemünde, Pomerania.
• July 9 – Thirty Years' War: Stettin is taken by Swedish forces.
• September 4 – Thirty Years' War: the Treaty of Stettin is signed by Sweden and the Duchy of Pomerania, forming a close alliance between them, as well as giving Sweden full military control over Pomerania.

Births

• 12 December – Olaus Rudbeck, physicist and anatomist (died 1702)
• Maria Jonae Palmgren, scholar, one of the first female college students (died 1708)

Deaths

• Margareta Hybertsson, shipbuilder

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