Events from the year 1529 in

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Incumbents

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Events

* The first Evangelical church meeting is held in

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, the '' Örebro koncilium'': the customs of

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ages (and thereby the worship of saints) is kept, and the priests are offered but not forced to accept the bible in the native language. However, fasting and the celibacy of vicars is abolished. * Dissolution of Gudhem Abbey. * April - The king sister Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa is captured and the Westrogothian rebellion takes place, with the purpose to deposed the king in protest of the Reformation. * The former nuns of the Askeby Abbey are forcibly moved to Vreta Abbey.

Births

* - Laurentius Petri Gothus, the second Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1579) * - Ebba Månsdotter (Lilliehöök), countess and county administrator (died

1609 Events January–March * January 12 – The Basque witch trials are started in Spain as the court of the Spanish Inquisition, Inquisition at Logroño receives a letter from the commissioner of the village of Zugarramurdi, and ...

) * - Kerstin Gabrielsdotter, Swedish Noblewoman

Deaths

References

Years of the 16th century in Sweden

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