Events from the year 1716 in Sweden

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Charles XII

Events

  • February – Charles XII gives Georg Heinrich von Görtz the responsibility of internal affairs.
  • 8 April – Swedish Wismar is taken.
  • 6 September – Charles XII makes Lund his base.
  • - Suecia antiqua et hodierna by Erik Dahlbergh.

Births

  • 30 January - Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, architect (died 1796)
  • - Pehr Kalm, botanist, naturalist (died 1779)
  • - Karl Gustaf Ekeberg, explorer (died 1784)
  • - Anna Margareta Salmelin, war heroine (died 1789)
  • - Helena Malheim, midwife (died 1795)

Deaths

  • - Carl Piper, politician (born 1647)

References



History of Sweden

Map of Sweden in 1791 by Reilly 068 Stock Photo Alamy

Sweden in 1660 Stormakt, Karta, Finland

Sweden 16001700s Find your Swedish ancestry

Scots in Sweden Seventeenth Century Part 1