1650 in Sweden

Events from the year 1650 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christina

Events

• - Coronation of Queen Christina.
• - The harvests fail over all Sweden.
• - The Swedish crown is made hereditary among the male descendants of Palatine Count Karl Gustav.
• Swedish copper mining breaks a record with 3,000 tonnes.

Births

• Unknown date - Eva Margareta Frölich, mystic, prophet, visionary and Pietistic writer (died 1692)
• Lars Ulstadius, Lutheran minister and a schoolteacher (died 1732)

Deaths

• 11 February – René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1596 in France)
• Carl Gyllenhielm, soldier and politician (born 1574)

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