1692 in Sweden

Events from the year 1692 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XI

Events

• The exiled mystic Eva Margareta Frölich return to Stockholm to preach.
• Livonian nobleman Johann Patkul protests to the king about the reduction of land to the Crown, then flees to escape arrest, and is later condemned to death.

Births

• 13 January - Gunnila Grubb, hymn writer (died 1729)
• 11 September - Ingela Gathenhielm, privateer in service of King Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War.
• Jacob Pettersson Degenaar, pirate (died 1766)

Deaths

• 17 May - Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken, cousin and foster sister of Queen Christina of Sweden and sister of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden
• September - Eva Margareta Frölich, mystic, prophet, visionary and Pietistic writer

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