1608 in Sweden explained

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.^[1] 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)

Notes and References

1. Granström, Görel, Kvinnorna och rätten: från stormaktstid till rösträttsstrid, Hallgren & Fallgren, Uppsala, 1996