1669 in Sweden

Events from the year 1669 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XI

Events

• Gothenburg burns down.
• Margareta Beijer becomes the second female manager of the Swedish Post Office.
• The trial against the conversion of Christina Eleonora Drakenhielm.
• The Mora witch trial is conducted.

Births

• 24 May - Emerentia von Düben, royal favorite (died 1743)
• Gustaf von Psilander, admiral (died 1738)

Deaths

• April 23 - Johannes Canuti Lenaeus, archbishop (born 1573)
• 15 May - Margareta Brahe, controversial countess and courtier (born 1603)
• unknown date - Margareta Slots, royal mistress (born unknown)
• 22 October - Sigrid Banér, Swedish letter writer (born 1592)

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