1608 in Sweden

Events from the year 1608 in Sweden

Incumbents Monarch – Charles IX

Events

- Swedish conquest of Dünamünde, Kokenhusen and Fellin. - The King has the laws of the Kingdom, the Kristofers landslag from 1442, printed and published and thereby favors that before the conflicting Magnus Erikssons landslag from the 1350s: the law is also amended with the appendix of the Law of Moses, which makes them more severe than before.Granström, Görel, Kvinnorna och rätten: från stormaktstid till rösträttsstrid, Hallgren & Fallgren, Uppsala, 1996 This law is applied to the country while the Stadslagen is confirmed as the law of the cities, an order which was to be in place until 1736.

- The Riksdag of Örebro discuss a peace offer from Poland, and the King attempt to unite Lutheranism and Calvinism.

Births

8 December - Vendela Skytte, poet and scholar (died 1629) - Arnold Johan Messenius, enfant terrible and historiographer (died 1651)

Deaths

- Sigrid Brahe, notorious countess (born 1568)

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