1691 in Sweden explained

Events from the year 1691 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XI

Events

• - Barnängens manufaktur is established in Stockholm.^[1]
• - The city of Jönköping burns down.
• - The crops fail all over Sweden.
• Sven Andersson (farmworker) is executed for having sex with a nymph.
• The theater company Dän Swänska Theatren is dissolved.^[2]

Births

• March 28 - Charles Emil Lewenhaupt, general (died 1743)
• Christina Beata Dagström, glassworks owner (died 1754)

Deaths

• Sven Andersson (farmworker) (born 1668)

Notes and References

1. Värdefulla industrimiljöer, Stockholms stadsmuseum, 1984
2. Dahlberg, Gunilla (1992). Komediantteatern i 1600-talets Stockholm. Stockholm: Komm. för Stockholmsforskning.