Events from the year 1696 in
Sweden
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Incumbents
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Monarch
A monarch () is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary. "Monarch". Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest ...
–
Charles XI
Events
* The
Velthen Company perform in Stockholm.
* A repeated failed harvest results in the culmination and continuation of the
Great Famine.
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Kalmar Nation at Lund University is first mentioned.
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Andreas 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
New Sweden () was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a g ...
and they arrived in early 1897. They brought with them translated copies of numerous religious texts.
Births
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Henrietta Polyxena of Vasaborg, princess (died
1777
Events
January–March
* January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second ...
)
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Deaths
* March -
Jean de la Vallée
Jean de la Vallée ( – 12 March 1696) was a Swedish architect.
Biography
Born in France, he was the son of architect Simon de la Vallée (–1642).
He made early trips in France and Italy where he studied the new baroque forms of architect ...
, architect (born
1620
Events
January–March
* January 7 – Ben Jonson's play ''News from the New World Discovered in the Moon'' is given its first performance, a presentation to King James I of England. In addition to dialogue about actual observ ...
)
* June -
Greta Duréel, accomplice in the Great Jewel Fraud of the Swedish National Bank (born year unknown)
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References
Years of the 17th century in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
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