1651 In Sweden
Events from the year 1651 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Christina Events * Queen Christina declared her wish to abdicate in favor of her cousin, but is convinced not to. * National Board of Trade (Sweden) is founded * National law of hotels states that all hotels must have at least three bedrooms except the one of the proprietor. * The Queen's favorite Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie loses favor with the monarch. * * * Births * Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, field marshal (died 1722) * * * * * Deaths * 7 April - Lennart Torstensson, field marshal (born 1603) * Arnold Johan Messenius, historian (born 1607) * * * * 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 ...

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 the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ...
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List Of Swedish Monarchs
This is a list of Swedish kings, queens, regents and viceroys of the Kalmar Union. History The earliest record of what is generally considered to be a Swedish king appears in Tacitus' work '' Germania'', c. 100 AD (the king of the Suiones). However, due to scant and unreliable sources before the 11th century, lists of succession traditionally start in the 10th century with king Olof Skötkonung, and his father Eric the Victorious, who also were the first Swedish kings to be baptized. There are, however, lists of Swedish pagan monarchs with far older dates, but in many cases these kings appear in sources of disputed historical reliability. These records notably deal with the legendary House of Yngling, and based on the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, Eric the Victorious and Olof Skötkonung have often been classified as belonging to the Swedish house of Ynglings, tracing them back to Sigurd Hring and Ragnar Lodbrok (whom Saxo considered to belong to the House of Yngling). Ho ...
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Christina, Queen Of Sweden
Christina ( sv, Kristina, 18 December (New Style) 1626 – 19 April 1689), a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden in her own right from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in 1632, but began ruling the Swedish Empire when she reached the age of eighteen in 1644. The Swedish queen is remembered as one of the most learned women of the 17th century. She was fond of books, manuscripts, paintings, and sculptures. With her interest in religion, philosophy, mathematics, and alchemy, she attracted many scientists to Stockholm, wanting the city to become the "Athens of the North". The Peace of Westphalia allowed her to establish an academy or university when and wherever she wanted. In 1644, she began issuing copper in lumps as large as fifteen kilograms to serve as currency. Christina's financial extravagance brought the state to the verge of bankruptcy, and the financial difficulties caus ...
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National Board Of Trade (Sweden)
The National Board of Trade ( sv, Kommerskollegium, , "College of Commerce) is a government agency in Sweden that answers to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit .... The agency is located in Stockholm. The National Board of Trade is dealing with foreign trade, the Internal Market and trade policy. The Board provides the Swedish government with analyses and recommendations. It was founded in 1651. See also * Government agencies in Sweden. External linksSwedish National Board of Trade- Official site 1651 establishments in Sweden Organizations established in 1651 Board of Trade Christina, Queen of Sweden Foreign trade of Sweden Sweden {{Sweden-gov-stub ...
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Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld
Count Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (6 August 1651 – 29 January 1722) was a Swedish Field Marshal (''Fältmarskalk'') and Royal Councillor. He was mentor and chief military advisor to King Charles XII of Sweden, and served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Carolean Army, an army he assisted both in its education and development. Rehnskiöld grew up in Swedish Pomerania and studied at Lund University under philosopher Samuel von Pufendorf. He entered Swedish war service in 1673 and participated with distinction in the Battles of Halmstad, Lund, and Landskrona during the Scanian War, where he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel and Adjutant-General. After the war, he was commander of several regiments, observer and tutor to Duke Frederick IV during the Nine Years' War, and Governor-General of Scania. In the Great Northern War he was Charles XII's right-hand man in the operative organization of the Carolean Army and drafted the battle plans for the landing at Humlebæk and for the b ...
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1722 In Sweden
Events from the year 1722 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * - Women are banned from working in the Swedish Post office.Ohlander, Ann-Sofie & Strömberg, Ulla-Britt, Tusen svenska kvinnoår: svensk kvinnohistoria från vikingatid till nutid, 3. (A Thousand Swedish Women's Years: Swedish Women's History from the Viking Age until now), marb. och utök.uppl., Norstedts akademiska förlag, Stockholm, 2008 * * * * * * Births * * 3 January - Fredrik Hasselqvist, naturalist and traveler (died 1752) * 18 March - Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, courtier and royal favorite (died 1758) * 23 December - Axel Fredrik Cronstedt Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (''/kroonstet/'' 23 December 1722 – 19 August 1765) was a Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered the element nickel in 1751 as a mining expert with the Bureau of Mines. Cronstedt is considered a founder of ..., mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel (died 1765 in Sweden, 1765) * * - ...
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Lennart Torstensson
Lennart Torstensson, Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad (17 August 16037 April 1651), was a Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer. Early career He was born at Forstena manor in Västergötland. His parents were Märta Nilsdotter Posse and Torsten Lennartsson, of the noble house Forstena, who was supporter of King Sigismund and, for a while, the commandant of Älvsborg fortress. Young Lennart's parents fled to exile in the year of his birth because his father had confessed to being loyal to the deposed Sigismund. Lennart was taken care of by relatives - his father returned to Sweden only when Lennart was around twenty. His paternal uncle Anders Lennartsson was Lord High Constable of Sweden and trusted by Duke Charles, but he fell at the Battle of Kircholm in 1605. Military career At the age of fifteen he became one of the pages of the young King Gustavus Adolphus and was allowed to observe the Livonian War, such as the conquest of Riga in 1621. At the age of twenty, h ...
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1603 In Sweden
Events from the year 1603 in Sweden Events * Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611): At Wesenberg (Rakvere), Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeated a Swedish reinforcement force under Arvid Stålarm the Younger sent to relieve the Swedish troops in Dorpat. The town later surrendered on April. * * - Sweden is struck by the Bubonic plague. Births * 28 June - Margareta Brahe, controversial countess and courtier (died 1669) * 17 August - Lennart Torstensson, Field Marshal and military engineer (died 1651) * * 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 ...

Arnold Johan Messenius
Arnold Johan Messenius (1607 – 22 December 1651) was a Swedish enfant terrible and rikshistoriograf (historiographer of the realm, or royal historiographer) who was condemned to death and executed under the reign of Queen Christina. Early life Arnold was born at Gdańsk, the son of the historian Johannes Messenius and Lucia Grothusen, daughter of Arnold Grothusen. The Grothusens were members of the old Livonian nobility. Arnold Johan spent much of his youth in the fortress of Kajaneborg in Arctic Finland, where his father had been imprisoned on suspicion of being a Catholic and collaborating with the king of Poland Sigismund III Vasa and the Jesuits. His father was sentenced to death in July 1616, but the king changed the sentence to prison, probably for life. During his imprisonment, Johannes Messenius wrote the ''Scandia illustrata'', a history of the Nordic countries in 14 volumes. The work treated Sweden's history from the Genesis flood narrative to Messenius' own time. W ...
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1651 In Sweden
Events from the year 1651 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Christina Events * Queen Christina declared her wish to abdicate in favor of her cousin, but is convinced not to. * National Board of Trade (Sweden) is founded * National law of hotels states that all hotels must have at least three bedrooms except the one of the proprietor. * The Queen's favorite Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie loses favor with the monarch. * * * Births * Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, field marshal (died 1722) * * * * * Deaths * 7 April - Lennart Torstensson, field marshal (born 1603) * Arnold Johan Messenius, historian (born 1607) * * * * 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 ...