1637 in Sweden

Events from the year 1637 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christina

Events

• The first regulation of the Romani, Placat om Tatrarnes fördrifvande av landet, declare all Romani expelled from Sweden: all adult men are sentenced to death while women and children are to be hunted over the borders.
• Gese Wechel becomes the first female manager of the Swedish Post Office.
• The New Sweden Company is endorsed by the Swedish Government.

December

• Peter Minuit from Holland sails to Delaware in order to create a settlement called New Sweden.

Births

• Axel Julius De la Gardie, field marshal and governor general (died 1710)
• Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck, countess and landowner (died 1723)

Deaths

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