1654 in Sweden

Events from the year 1654 in Sweden.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Christina then Charles X Gustav

Events

• April - The 1654 Anglo-Swedish alliance is forged to offset the Danish-Dutch alliance.
• 6 June - Charles X Gustav succeeds his cousin Christina on the Swedish throne. After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.
• 24 October - The wedding between Charles X Gustav and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp.

Births

• 23 May - Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, architect (died 1728)
• 6 October - Johan Peringskiöld, antiquarian (died 1720)
• Anna Lohe, banker (died 1731)

Deaths

• 25 January - Ebba Mauritzdotter Leijonhufvud, courtier (born 1595)
• 28 August - Axel Oxenstierna, politician (born 1583)
• Louise van der Nooth, courtier (born 1630s)

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