1717 In Sweden
Events from the year 1717 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XII Events * 2 May - Battle of Göteborg * 19 July - Battle of Strömstad * * * * * * Births * * * 2 August - Karl Aurivillius, linguist, translator and orientalist (died 1786) * 26 November - Olof af Acrel, physician and surgeon (died 1806) * * Date unknown - Elisabeth Lillström, stage actress and opera singer (died 1791) Deaths * 16 January - Elias Brenner, painter, numismatist, and archeologist (born 1647) * 23 February - Magnus Stenbock, military officer (born 1664) * * - Märta Berendes, courtier and memoir writer (born 1639) References Years of the 18th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

1791 In Sweden
Events from the year 1791 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * Inauguration of the ''Bergianska trädgården'' * Creation of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden) * by Thomas Thorild. * ''Fredmans sånger'' by Carl Michael Bellman.Carl Michael Bellman (1791). "Fredmans sånger". Project Runeberg (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-10-11. * '' Dumboms lefverne'' by Johan Henric Kellgren. Births * 29 June – Charlotta Skjöldebrand, court official (died 1866) * 20 June – Carl Fredric Dahlgren, poet (died 1844) * Ulrika Möllersvärd, courtier (died 1878) * Wendla Åberg, dancer and actress (died 1864) Deaths * 1 January - Anna Charlotta Schröderheim, salonnière (born 1754) * 4 April – Elisabeth Lillström, opera singer and actress (born 1717) * 14 May - Maja-Lisa Borgman, coffee house owner (born 1750s) * Brita Horn, courtier (born 1745 Events January–March * January 7 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Austrian Arm ...
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1717 In Sweden
Events from the year 1717 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XII Events * 2 May - Battle of Göteborg * 19 July - Battle of Strömstad * * * * * * Births * * * 2 August - Karl Aurivillius, linguist, translator and orientalist (died 1786) * 26 November - Olof af Acrel, physician and surgeon (died 1806) * * Date unknown - Elisabeth Lillström, stage actress and opera singer (died 1791) Deaths * 16 January - Elias Brenner, painter, numismatist, and archeologist (born 1647) * 23 February - Magnus Stenbock, military officer (born 1664) * * - Märta Berendes, courtier and memoir writer (born 1639) References Years of the 18th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

1639 In Sweden
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. * 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) Deaths References Years of the 17th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

Märta Berendes
Märta Berendes (21 January, 1639 – 18 October, 1717), was a Swedish Baroness and diary writer. She served as ''överhovmästarinna'' (Mistress of the Robes) at the Swedish royal court from 1693 to 1717. She is the author of a diary written between 1676 and 1698, which has been published and has been the object of research. Life Märta Berendes was the daughter of the nobleman Johan Berendes (d. 1652) and Ingeborg Kurck (d. 1654). She inherited a fortune after her father's death. In 1656, she married her uncle's brother-in-law, baron Johan Sparre of Bohnerö and Walstanäs (d. 1659). She describes this marriage as happy, but her spouse was sickly, and left her a widow with two children. In 1662, she married secondly to ''riksråd'' baron Gustaf Posse af Hedensund till Arnäs (1626-1676). She also described this marriage as happy, but her second spouse, like the first, was sickly, and he and four of her children all died of smallpox in 1675-76. After her second widowhood, s ...
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1664 In Sweden
Events from the year 1664 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Events * Carl Gustaf Wrangel appointed Lord High Constable of Sweden. * Publication of Gautreks saga. * A new sumptuary law, replaced and amended the previous one of 1644, restrict the guests at engagement dinners to family and bans the custom of conducting them in bath houses; weddings are no longer to be celebrated for more than one day; the guests at weddings are restricted; dress fashion are regulated according to class and only the nobility, the clergy and the highest circles of the burgher class are allowed valuable textiles (in the latter cases in more discreet colors), and then only within the restrictions of customary dress, as the habit of adjusting to fashion had become more and more common, which worried the authorities who wished to have a permanent dress fashion for each class: this law is however not respected.Svenska folkets underbara öden / IV. Karl XI:s och Karl XII:s tid * Births * 4 ...
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Magnus Stenbock
Count Magnus Stenbock (22 May 1665 – 23 February 1717) was a Swedish field marshal ('' Fältmarskalk'') and Royal Councillor. A renowned commander of the Carolean Army during the Great Northern War, he was a prominent member of the Stenbock family. He studied at Uppsala University and joined the Swedish Army during the Nine Years' War, where he participated in the Battle of Fleurus in 1690. After the battle, he was appointed lieutenant colonel, entered Holy Roman service as Adjutant General, and married Eva Magdalena Oxenstierna, daughter of statesman Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna. Returning to Swedish service he received colonelcy of a regiment in Wismar, and later became colonel of the Kalmar and then Dalarna regiments. During the Great Northern War, Stenbock served under King Charles XII in his military campaigns in the Baltic and Polish fronts. As director of the General War Commissariat, Stenbock collected substantial funds and supplies for the maintenance of th ...
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1647 In Sweden
Events from the year 1647 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Christina, Queen of Sweden, Christina Events * March 14 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, Kingdom of France, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. * March 25 – In an incident that attracted attention, an orphan, , leads sixteen orphans from the ''Allmänna Barnhuset'' up to the royal palace, where she successfully demands to be given an audience with queen Christina and states in a complaint, that the children in the orphanage had been forced to beg on the streets to be given anything to eat.Byggnadskollegiets protokoll 27 mars 1647 (handskrift), Stockholms stadsarkiv Births * 18 April - Elias Brenner, painter, numismatist, and archeologist (died 1717 in Sweden, 1717) * July 29 - Carl Piper, politician (died 1716 in Sweden, 1716) Deaths * References

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