Sweden

1,290 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Sweden, 1520 CE to 2025 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

16th century

324 entries, 1520 CE to 1598 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

15206 March – Several members of the Swedish riksråd make peace with Christian II of Denmark and acknowledge him as Swedish monarch in Uppsala.Sweden source
152031 May - Gustav Vasa return to Sweden at Kalmar.Sweden source
1521February 2 – The Nydala Abbey Bloodbath take place in Nydala Abbey.Sweden source
1526The King demands confiscation of clerical property.Sweden source
1529Erik Trolle, regent of Sweden (born c. 1460)Sweden source
1535June – Swedish victory at the Battle of Bornholm (1535).Sweden source
153631 December - Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa, the sister of the king (born 1497)Sweden source
15396 June - Catherine Vasa, princess (died 1610)Sweden source
1549The kings nephew Per Brahe the Elder is appointed riksråd.Sweden source
1551Queen Margaret Leijonhufvud, the second wife of King Gustav I, died of pneumonia on August 26, 1551, at Tynnelsö Castle. She was a significant figure as an advisor to the king and mother to many of his children.Sweden source
1555Petrus Kenicius, Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1636)Sweden source
1558A new order of mass, Liturgia eller Then Svenska Messordning, is published in both Latin and Swedish.Sweden source
156114 April - The Arboga artiklar regulates the power within the Swedish duchies, limiting the political power of the King's brothers.Sweden source
15639 August – Northern Seven Years' WarSweden source
1564The Swedish battleship Mars was finished in 1564, under instruction from master shipwright Holgerd Olsson (Master Hollinger). It was the flagship of the Swedish fleet of 38 ships, and commanded by Admiral Jakob Bagge.Sweden source
156626 March - 250 Swedes die in an attempt to capture Bohus Fortress.Sweden source
156720 November - Linköping is burnt when the Swedish army pursues the Danes out of Sweden.Sweden source
156829 September - The King is arrested, imprisoned and deposed by his brothersSweden source
1569The 1569 Plot, a conspiracy to free the deposed king from prison is discovered and the conspirators are executed.Sweden source
1574September - The Mornay Plot, a plot to assassinate John III of Sweden is discovered, headed by Charles de Mornay and implicating Charles Dancay, Hogenskild Bielke, Gustaf Banér, Pontus De la Gardie, Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, Princess Cecilia of Sweden, and Duke Charles.Sweden source
15804 November - Conquest of Kexholm in RussiaSweden source
1582February 6 – Hudiksvall is granted town privileges.Sweden source
1586Brita Andersdotter Gothenburgs first female brewer (died 1671)Sweden source
159229 December - Johannes Matthiae Gothus, professor (died 1670)Sweden source
159521 June – Henrik Klasson Horn (Finnish: Henrikki Laavunpoika of Kankainen), army commander and nobleman (born 1512)Sweden source

17th century

437 entries, 1600 CE to 1699 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

160020 March - Linköping Bloodbath conducted against the Sigismund loyalists.Sweden source
16088 December - Vendela Skytte, poet and scholar (died 1629)Sweden source
161226 February – Massacre in Nya Lödöse, 300 Norwegian soldiers are massacred inside a church in Nya Lödöse.Sweden source
1618Circa 1618 – Administrative reform: Oxenstierna reorganizes the Kammarkollegiet into a multi-departmental institution, a model for modern Swedish bureaucracy.Sweden source
1623The city street trade outside the guilds, Månglare, is regulated by permit which are only to be issued to people in need of support and by regulations set to protect the monopoly of the guilds.Sweden source
162712–17 April – Battle of CzarneSweden source
163012 December – Olaus Rudbeck, physicist and anatomist (died 1702)Sweden source
1633Alliance between Sweden and the Protestant states of south-west Germany.Sweden source
1637Peter Minuit from Holland sails with Kalmar Nyckel and Fogel Grip to Delaware in order to create a settlement called New Sweden.Sweden source
1641May - Lennart Torstensson is appointed field marshal and becomes the leader of the Swedish army during the Thirty Years' War in Germany. The Peace of Westphalia, which effectively ended the Thirty Years' War, was signed in 1648.Sweden source
1644Queen Christina is declared to be of legal majority and the regency government is dissolved.Sweden source
1646Charles XI of Sweden (died April 5, 1697)Sweden source
1650Swedish copper mining breaks a record with 3,000 tonnes.Sweden source
165428 August - Axel Oxenstierna, politician (born 1583)Sweden source
1658Swedish occupation of CourlandSweden source
166013 February - Charles X Gustav dies at the age of 37, while a Riksdag he had convened to address the military situation against Denmark was in session.Sweden source
16646 April - Arvid Horn, politician (d. 1742)Sweden source
1669Margareta Beijer becomes the second female manager of the Swedish Post Office.Sweden source
1672Sten Nilsson Bielke is appointed Lord High Treasurer of Sweden.Sweden source
1675June 18 - Battle of FehrbellinSweden source
1678Jörgen Krabbe, Swedish nobleman and politician (b. 1633)Sweden source
1682The Great Reversion of the property of the nobility is placed entirely in the hands of the monarch.Sweden source
1686A Commission is formed to create a new civil code, which eventually leads to the Civil Code of 1734.Sweden source
168924 February - Elsa Elisabeth Brahe, duchess (born 1632)Sweden source
1696Andreas Rudman and Erik Björck set sail in August of 1696 for America, with the intention of becoming ministers to congregations within the former colony of New Sweden and they arrived in early 1897. They brought with them translated copies of numerous religious texts.Sweden source

18th century

287 entries, 1700 CE to 1799 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1700August 18 (August 7 OS) – Peace of Travendal concluded between the Swedish Empire, Denmark-Norway and Holstein-Gottorp in Traventhal. On the same day, Augustus II, King of Poland, and Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, enter the war against Sweden.Sweden source
17046 September - The Storming of LembergSweden source
1706The La troupe du Roi de Suede leaves Sweden and the theater of Bollhuset remains closed for fifteen years.Sweden source
1711Great Northern War plague outbreakSweden source
1716February – Charles XII gives Georg Heinrich von Görtz the responsibility of internal affairs.Sweden source
171910 April - Arvid Horn steps down as Privy Council Chancellery.Sweden source
17203 May - Coronation of Frederick I.Sweden source
1725Swedish count and politician Carl Gustaf Tessin is appointed ambassador to Vienna and becomes prominent in the Riksdag of the Estates.Sweden source
173212 May to 10 October - Carl Linnaeus performs the Expedition to Lapland.Sweden source
173510 May - Kongliga Ritarakademien is created: it is re-founded as the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1773.Sweden source
1739A new regulation states that knowledge in the Finnish language should always be considered when someone is employed in a public office in the province of Finland; though all education above basic education and all public servants in Finland remain Swedish speaking, this regulation does increase the use of the Finnish language in public in Finland.Sweden source
1742June - Finland is occupied by Russia during the War of the Hats.Sweden source
174323 June - Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, the candidate of Empress Elizabeth I of Russia, is elected heir to the Swedish throne.Sweden source
175121 September – The final border between Sweden and Norway is recognized.Sweden source
175320 September – Inauguration of the new observatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.Sweden source
17615 February – Anders Johan von Höpken steps down as President of the Privy Council Chancellery.Sweden source
17662 December – The law of the Freedom of the press and the public access to public documents is passed.Sweden source
176930 May – Claes Ekeblad appointed Privy Council Chancellery.Sweden source
1772September – The legal manufacture of Brännvin for personal use is banned because of the crop's failure.Sweden source
17747 June - Wedding between Prince Charles and Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.Sweden source
17765 August - Romeo and Juliet is played for the first time in Sweden at Egges Theatre in Norrköping with Margareta Seuerling as Julia.Sweden source
178230 September - The Royal Swedish Opera relocates from Bollhuset to a new modern opera house, which is inaugurated with Cora och Alonzo by Johann Gottlieb Naumann.Sweden source
178825 May - The Royal Dramatic Theatre is inaugurated in Bollhuset in Stockholm.Sweden source
1790April - Ten death sentences is given for participants in the Anjala conspiracy.Sweden source
1792Om det allmänna förståndets frihet by Thomas Thorild.Sweden source

19th century

199 entries, 1800 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

180014 August - Trollhätte Canal, later a part of the Göta Canal, is inaugurated.Sweden source
1807January - French occupation of Swedish Pomerania.Sweden source
181020 October - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte arrives in Sweden.Sweden source
1816Inauguration of the Segerlindska teatern in Gothenburg.Sweden source
18253 February - Swedish Prison and Probation Service is founded.Sweden source
1831Sweden begins tracking conviction statistics.Sweden source
1836Lars Johan Hierta continued editing Aftonbladet, established in 1830 as Sweden's leading journal of liberal opposition.Sweden source
1840Nyare dikter by Wilhelm von BraunSweden source
1841The state supported brothels London and Stadt Hamburg is closed.Sweden source
1845Brita Sofia Hesselius opens a daguerreotype photographic studio in Karlstad and likely becomes the first professional female photographer in Sweden.Sweden source
1846The Swedish History Museum is founded.Sweden source
1847The Åhlinska skolan is founded in Stockholm by Karin Åhlin and her sisters.Sweden source
185029 January – 'The Blizzard Tuesday', or 'Stormy Tuesday,' strikes large parts of central and southern Sweden, killing roughly 100 people.Sweden source
1852Sophia Posse takes over the girls' school Hammarstedtska skolan.Sweden source
1854Founding of the Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring.Sweden source
1857Several protests for higher pay in Sweden's iron and steel factories.Sweden source
1860The Dissenter Acts (Sweden) allow citizens to leave the state church.Sweden source
1862Queen Louise and Princess Louise takes swimming lessons for the pioneer Nancy Edberg, making swimming socially acceptable for females.Sweden source
1864Women students are admitted as students at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts without having to apply for a dispensation.Sweden source
1866Elizabeth Stride emigrate to London in Great Britain.Sweden source
186819 September – inauguration of Dalsland Canal.Sweden source
1874Establishment of the Prästerskapets Änke- och Pupillkassa, a retirement fund for widows of priests.Sweden source
18772 March - The Helga de la Brache affair is completed by a conviction of the de la Brache after her exposure.Sweden source
1885Date unknown - Creation of the Wahlström & WidstrandSweden source
1896The Swedish National Council of Women is founded by Ellen Fries.Sweden source

20th century

41 entries, 1900 CE to 1974 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

1900Date unknown – The Swedish branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is organized by Emilie Rathou.Sweden source
1901A name ordinance is put in legal effect, regulating the uses of first names, surnames and family names.Sweden source
1901Easter (Påsk), play by August Strindberg.Sweden source
1903The SAF game rather late in the labor union movement of SwedenSweden source
1903Agnes Arvidsson becomes the first woman to graduate in pharmacology.Sweden source
1904Date unknown – First issue of Morgonbris.Sweden source
1904Date unknown – From this year until 1909, co-education is introduced in a number of state secondary education schools, which makes private girls schools redundant.Sweden source
190723 January - Sweden's record highest atmospheric pressure value occurs in Kalmar and Visby at 1063.7 hPa.Sweden source
190910 December – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first woman to be given the Nobel Prize in Literature.Sweden source
1910November 23 – Murderer Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.Sweden source
19111911 Liberal policy focused on decrease in military expenditure. This led to conflict between Staaf and King Gustav V.Sweden source
19122 August – A Swedish study shows that farm trade has increased so much that other trade is suffering.Sweden source
19131 January – The National Board of Health and Welfare is foundedSweden source
1916March - Inauguration of the Liljevalchs konsthall.Sweden source
1917The child serial killer Hilda Nilsson is put on trial.Sweden source
191814 March – Eva Andén is elected the first female member of the Swedish Bar Association.Sweden source
192525 January – Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister because of ill health and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler.Sweden source
1939Pelle Svanslös på äventyr by Gösta Knutsson, the first book in the Pelle Svanslös children's book seriesSweden source
194125 June - 163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) starts to travel through Sweden.Sweden source
194430 January – Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees is founded.Sweden source
19499 December – Pippi Longstocking releasedSweden source
195122 January – 11 people die when a rail bus and a train collide in Kinstaby, Sweden.Sweden source
195611 June – Seventh Heaven releasedSweden source
195611-17 June - The country stages the Equestrian events in the 1956 Summer Olympics because of problems with quarantine laws affecting the host city of MelbourneSweden source
19621 January - Sweden's GNP increases by 4.5%.Sweden source

21st century

2 entries, 2016 CE to 2025 CE

2016March 2 – Prince Oscar, Duke of SkåneSweden source
20257 February – Princess Ines, Duchess of Västerbotten.Sweden source