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1655 In Sweden
Events from the year 1655 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Charles X Gustav Events * The King summon the 1655 Riksdag and introduces a Reduction (Sweden) of a quarter of all lands granted to the nobility from the crown since 1632.Per Nyström: Ekonomisk frihet och rätt i svensk historia, in I folkets tjänst, artiklar i urval. Stockholm 1983. * Deluge (history) * 23 August - Battle of Sobota * 16 September - Battle of Żarnów * September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki * 3 October - Battle of Wojnicz Births * January - Cornelius Anckarstjerna, admiral (died 1714 in Sweden, 1714) * Charles XI of Sweden, monarch (died 1697 in Sweden, 1697) * * * * David von Krafft, painter (died 1724 in Sweden, 1724) Deaths * 28 March - Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, queen dowager (born 1595 in Germany, 1595) * Anna Ovena Hoyer, writer (born 1584 in Germany, 1584) * Christian Thum, actor and theater director ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles XI Of Sweden
Charles XI or Carl ( sv, Karl XI; ) was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death, in a period of Swedish history known as the Swedish Empire (1611–1721). He was the only son of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp. His father died when he was four years old, so Charles was educated by his governors until his coronation at the age of seventeen. Soon afterward, he was forced out on military expeditions to secure the recently acquired dominions from Danish troops in the Scanian War. Having successfully fought off the Danes, he returned to Stockholm and engaged in correcting the country's neglected political, financial, and economic situation. He managed to sustain peace during the remaining 20 years of his reign. Changes in finance, commerce, national maritime and land armaments, judicial procedure, church government, and education emerged during this period. Charles XI was succeeded by his only son Charles XII, who made use of the well-tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1655 In Sweden
Events from the year 1655 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles X Gustav of Sweden, Charles X Gustav Events * The King summon the 1655 Riksdag and introduces a Reduction (Sweden) of a quarter of all lands granted to the nobility from the crown since 1632.Per Nyström: Ekonomisk frihet och rätt i svensk historia, in I folkets tjänst, artiklar i urval. Stockholm 1983. * Deluge (history) * 23 August - Battle of Sobota * 16 September - Battle of Żarnów * September 20 – September 30 - Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki * 3 October - Battle of Wojnicz Births * January - Cornelius Anckarstjerna, admiral (died 1714 in Sweden, 1714) * Charles XI of Sweden, monarch (died 1697 in Sweden, 1697) * * * * David von Krafft, painter (died 1724 in Sweden, 1724) Deaths * 28 March - Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, queen dowager (born 1595 in Germany, 1595) * Anna Ovena Hoyer, writer (born 1584 in Germany, 1584) * Christian Thum, actor and theater director ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Thum
Christian Thum also known as även von Thum, Thumb, Theun and Thun (d. 1655), was a Swedish (originally German) actor and theater director. He belongs to the earliest identifiable professional actors active in Sweden, was the leader of the theater of the Swedish royal court in 1628-1645, and the founder of the likely first theater in Sweden and Scandinavia, '' Björngårdsteatern '' (1640). Life Christian Thum was from Germany, but it is unknown from where. He himself stated that he had been active in Sweden since 1615, but he is confirmed as such for the first time in Kalmar in 1624. He performed a theater play for queen Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg in 1628, and was from that point until 1637 engaged at her court as an actor, though not much is known of his activity. In 1637, he was transferred to the court of queen Christina of Sweden and is explicitly named director of the royal court theater: the regency government regarded a theater as a useful pedagogic method for the child m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1584 In Germany
__NOTOC__ Events January–June * January–March – Archangelsk is founded as ''New Kholmogory'' in northern Russia, by Ivan the Terrible. * January 11 – Sir Walter Mildmay is given a royal licence to found Emmanuel College, Cambridge in England. * March 18 ( N.S. March 28) – Ivan the Terrible, ruler of Russia since 1533, dies; he is succeeded as Tsar by his son, Feodor. * May 17 – The conflict between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu culminates in the Battle of Nagakute. * June 1 – With the death of the Duc d'Anjou, the Huguenot Henry of Navarre becomes heir-presumptive to the throne of France. * June 4 – Walter Raleigh sends Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia (now North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony; they locate Roanoke Island. * June 11 – Walk (modern-day Valka and Valga, towns in Latvia and Estonia respectively), receives city rights from Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Ovena Hoyer
Anna Ovena Hoyer (born: Anke Hanß, aka Anna Ovena Hoyers, Swedish: ''Anna Orena Höijer'') (Koldenbüttel on Ejdersted peninsula 1584 – 27 November 1655) was a writer and poet, originally German; active in Sweden from 1632. She belonged to the Schwenkfeldians (a branch founded by Nicolaus Knutzen Teting called Brethren in Christ (Brüder in Christo)) and was a critic of Lutheranism. Biography Hoyer was the only child of the wealthy astronomer Hans Owens (aka Johann Oven) (1560-1584) and his wife Wennecke Hunnens (1567-1587). After her parents' deaths she lived with her uncle Meves Owens (1555-1630) and was educated in astronomy, literature, music, and the Classics. At 15 she married Hermann Hoyer, stadtholder in Ejdersted, with whom she had at least nine children. With her dowry, amounting to 100,000 rixdollar of Lübeck fineness, she helped to repay debts charged on her spouse's estates. She inherited the manor Hoyersworth (a part of today's Oldenswort) in the North Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1595 In Germany
Events January–June * January – Mehmed III succeeds Murad III, as sultan of the Ottoman Empire. * January 17 – During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. * April 8 (March 29 O.S.) – Combined Taungoo–Lan Na armies break the rebel Thado Dhamma Yaza's siege of Taungoo, in modern-day Myanmar. * April 15 – Sir Walter Raleigh travels up the Orinoco River, in search of the fabled city of ''El Dorado''. * May 18 – The Treaty of Teusina brings to an end the Russo-Swedish War (1590–95). * May 24 – The ''Nomenclator'' of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. * May 29 – George Somers and Amyas Preston travel to aid Raleigh's El Dorado expedition but failing to meet him instead raid the Spanish Province of Venezuela * June 9 – Battle of Fontaine-Française: Henry IV of France defeats the Spanish, but is nearly killed due to his rashness. J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Eleonora Of Brandenburg
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655) was a German princess and Queen of Sweden as the consort of King Gustav II Adolph (''Gustavus Adolphus''). She was a daughter of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and Anna, Duchess of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia. In 1620, Maria Eleonora married Gustavus Adolphus with her mother's consent, but against the will of her brother George William, Elector of Brandenburg, who had just succeeded her father. She bore her husband a daughter, Christina in 1626. Engagement In 1616, the 22-year-old Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden started looking for a Protestant bride. He had since 1613 tried to get his mother's permission to marry the noblewoman Ebba Brahe, but this was not allowed, and he had to give up his wishes to marry her, though he continued to be in love with her. He received reports with the most flattering descriptions of the physical and mental qualities of the beautiful 17-year-old pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1724 In Sweden
Events from the year 1724 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * - Defense treaty between Sweden and Russia. * - The Product Act ban all foreign ships to import products from any other nations than their own.Berättelser ur svenska historien (1885-1886) (läst 3 april 2011) * - New law on schooling: all parents are obliged to learn their children read and write, or have teachers to do so. This law is in effect until 1807. * * * * Births * 16 January - Per Krafft the Elder, portraitist (died 1793) * * * * 10 July - Eva Ekeblad, scientist (died 1786) * * - Ulrika Strömfelt, politically active courtier (died 1780) Deaths * * 20 September - David von Krafft, painter (born 1655) * - Urban Hjärne, chemist (born 1641) * * - Beata Sparre, politically active courtier (born 1662) References Years of the 18th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Von Krafft
David Krafft, from 1719 David von Krafft (1655 – 20 September 1724), was a German-Swedish painter, the nephew and student of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and his successor (in 1698) as painter to the Swedish Royal Court. Biography Krafft was born in Hamburg. Krafft became an orphan at an early age. His parents' names are not known but his mother was a sister of the Swedish court painter David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl. Krafft was called to Sweden in 1675 by Ehrenstrahl, as his assistant and apprentice. Ehrenstrahl also became his teacher in the art of painting. David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl had been born in Hamburg and settled in Sweden in the 1650s, where he was successful as a painter primarily of portraits of members of the royal house and the aristocracy. He was ennobled in 1674, receiving the surname Ehrenstrahl. In 1684 Krafft received an annual grant from Queen Ulrika Eleonora the Elder for a journey to Italy through Denmark and Germany. The purpose was first to visit the va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1697 In Sweden
Events from the year 1697 in Sweden. Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XI of Sweden, Charles XI, succeeded by Charles XII of Sweden, Charles XII Events * In the spring, the disastrous Great Famine of Finland (1695–97), Great Famine comes to an end. Topelius, Zacharias (1899). ”Stora hungersnöden”. Fältskärns berättelser. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers förlag. P. 388-399 * 5 April - Charles XI of Sweden dies of stomach cancer, and is succeeded by Charles XII of Sweden under the regency of his grandmother, Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Hedwig Eleonora. * 7 May - The royal residence in the capital, Tre Kronor (castle), burns down. * * * Births * * * * * * * Helena Arnell, painter (died 1751 in Sweden, 1751) Deaths * 5 April - Charles XI of Sweden, monarch (born 1655 in Sweden, 1655) * 11 September - Agneta Rosenbröijer, noblewoman and businessperson (born 1620 in Sweden, 1620) * - Karin Thomasdotter, vogt and länsman (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1714 In Sweden
Events from the year 1714 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XII Events * 9 February - Russian victory at the Battle of Storkyro. As a result, all of Finland fell under Russian military occupation for the rest of the war, a seven-year period of hardship known in Finland as the Great Wrath. * 7 August - Battle of Gangut * - Creation of the Stockholm County. * * * * * * - The Anna Jöransdotter case. Births * 9 January - Elisabeth Stierncrona, writer (died 1769) * * 21 April - Anna Maria Hilfeling, miniaturist (died 1783) * * 31 October - Hedvig Taube, royal mistress (died 1744) * 25 December - Israel Acrelius, priest (died 1800) * * Deaths * 17 April – Haquin Spegel, author and hymn writer (born 1645) * 19 April – Cornelius Anckarstierna, admiral (born 1655) * * * – Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock, courtier (born 1658) References Years of the 18th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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