1639 in Sweden explained

Events from the year 1639 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christina

Events

• 14 April – Battle of Chemnitz took place near the town of Chemnitz, in what is now eastern Germany, during the Thirty Years' War. Swedish forces under Johan Banér inflicted a crushing defeat on Rodolfo Giovanni Marazzino who commanded the Saxons and an Imperial detachment.^[1]
• Hjälmare kanal taken in to use.
• Case of Anna von Hintzen, a noble who flees Sweden to escape arrest of the murder of her servant.

Births

• 5 January – Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck, military officer (d. 1688)
• 21 January – Märta Berendes, courtier and diary writer (d. 1717)

Notes and References

1. Book: Wilson. Peter Hamish. The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy. 2009. Harvard University Press. Cambridge. 9780674036345. 614. 18 March 2017.