1716 in Sweden

Events from the year 1716 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XII

Events

• February – Charles XII gives Georg Heinrich von Görtz the responsibility of internal affairs.
• 8 April – Swedish Wismar is taken.
• 6 September – Charles XII makes Lund his base.
• - Suecia antiqua et hodierna by Erik Dahlbergh.

Births

• 30 January – Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, architect (died 1796)
• – Pehr Kalm, botanist, naturalist (died 1779)
• – Karl Gustaf Ekeberg, explorer (died 1784)
• – Anna Margareta Salmelin, war heroine (died 1789)
• – Helena Malheim, midwife (died 1795)

Deaths

• – Carl Piper, politician (born 1647)

References