1682 in Sweden

Events from the year 1682 in Sweden

Incumbents Monarch – Charles XI

Events

The second Duellplakatet confirms the 1662 ban on duels with even more severity. Absolute monarchy is established when the Estates acknowledge the right of the monarch to write laws without their participation. The Great Reversion of the property of the nobility is placed entirely in the hands of the monarch.Per Nyström: Ekonomisk frihet och rätt i svensk historia, in I folkets tjänst, artiklar i urval. Stockholm 1983. The theater company Dän Swänska Theatren is formed. Dahlberg, Gunilla (1992). Komediantteatern i 1600-talets Stockholm. Stockholm: Komm. för Stockholmsforskning. The Allotment system reorganize the Swedish army system. Lund University is reopened after the war. by Skogekär Bergbo.

Births

17 June - Charles XII of Sweden, monarch (died 1718) Margareta Capsia, painter (died 1759) Gustavus Hesselius, painter (died 1755)

Deaths

- Elizabeth Carlsdotter Gyllenhielm, royal daughter and courtier (born 1622)

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