1688 in Sweden

Events from the year 1688 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XI

Events

• The monarch extends the Great Reversion to Swedish Livonia.
• Coffee is served in public in Stockholm for the first time.
• The religious process against the dissident Lars Ulstadius

Births

• 23 January - Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, monarch and queen consort (died 1741)
• 29 January - Emanuel Swedenborg, scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic (died 1772)

Deaths

• Maria Dauerer, pharmacist (apothecary) (born 1624)
• 15 September - Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck, military officer (born 1639)

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