1714 in Sweden

Events from the year 1714 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XII

Events

• 9 February - Russian victory at the Battle of Storkyro. As a result, all of Finland fell under Russian military occupation for the rest of the war, a seven-year period of hardship known in Finland as the Great Wrath.
• 7 August - Battle of Gangut
• - Creation of the Stockholm County.
• - The Anna Jöransdotter case.

Births

• 9 January - Elisabeth Stierncrona, writer (died 1769)
• 21 April - Anna Maria Hilfeling, miniaturist (died 1783)
• 31 October - Hedvig Taube, royal mistress (died 1744)
• 25 December - Israel Acrelius, priest (died 1800)

Deaths

• 17 April – Haquin Spegel, author and hymn writer (born 1645)
• 19 April – Cornelius Anckarstierna, admiral (born 1655)
• – Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock, courtier (born 1658)

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