1672 in Sweden

Events from the year 1672 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XI

Events

• Alliance between Sweden and France.
• The King is declared to legal majority, and the regency government is thereby dissolved.
• Hervarar saga by Olof Verelius.
• Sten Nilsson Bielke is appointed Lord High Treasurer of Sweden.
• Carlsburg, Weser

Births

• 27 October - Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna, writer (died 1737)
• Hedvig Mörner, politically influential countess (died 1753)

Deaths

• Agneta Horn, memoir writer (died 1629)
• Georg Stiernhielm, linguist and poet (died 1598)
• Märet Jonsdotter, alleged witch (born 1644)

References