Events from the year 1670 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Charles XI
Events February 22 – Laurentius Stigzelius is appointed as the new Swedish archbishop. When he was ordained shortly afterwards by Bishop Enander in Linköping, it was the last time before 1914 that a Swedish archbishop was ordained (all archbishops between Stigzelius and Nathan Söderblom are already bishops at the time of accession).
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Six people decapitated for witchcraft in Kungsälv The first sods are taken to Carlsburg at the mouth of the river Weser. The city is supposed to become a Swedish support point for trade competition, but the project fails Ransäter's parish was created by breaking away from Övre Ullerud's parish. The (then) village of Sundsvall, a fishing village in eastern central area of Sweden that is now the Sundsvall Municipality, reached a population of 194.
Births
19 June - Olof Celsius, botanist, philologist (died 1756) 12 April - Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, prince (died 1731)
Deaths
Baron Lorens von der Linde (Born 20 July 1610, Died 25 June 1670)
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