Events from the year 1529 in
Sweden
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Incumbents
*
Monarch –
Gustav I
Events
* The first Evangelical church meeting is held in
Örebro, the ''
Örebro koncilium
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'': the customs of
Holy water,
Anointing and
Pilgrimages (and thereby the worship of saints) is kept, and the priests are offered but not forced to accept the bible in the native language. However, fasting and the celibacy of vicars is abolished.
* Dissolution of
Gudhem Abbey
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.
* April - The king sister
Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa is captured and the
Westrogothian rebellion takes place, with the purpose to deposed the king in protest of the Reformation.
* The former nuns of the
Askeby Abbey are forcibly moved to
Vreta Abbey.
Births
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Laurentius Petri Gothus, the second Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala (died
1579
Year 1579 ( MDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 6 ...
)
* -
Ebba Månsdotter (Lilliehöök), countess and county administrator (died
1609
Events
January–June
* January – The Basque witch trials begin.
* January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, ''Avisa Relation oder Zeitung'', begins publication in Wolfenbüttel (Holy Roman Empire).
* January 3 ...
)
* -
Kerstin Gabrielsdotter, Swedish Noblewoman
Deaths
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References
Years of the 16th century in Sweden
Sweden
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