Events from the year 1594 in

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Incumbents

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– Sigismund

Events

* - John III is buried. * - Sigismund is crowned. * - Vadstena Abbey is given a new Catholic priest. * - Sigismund leaves for his other Kingdom, Poland, and appoints his uncle Duke Charles regent in his absence. *

Births

* 1 September -

Torsten Stålhandske Torsten Stålhandske (Porvoo, Finland, 1 September 1593 – Haderslev, 21 April 1644) – Swedish for "Torsten Steelglove", sometimes written "Stålhansch" in the Swedish of the time and referred to in German literature as ''Torsten Staalhansch' ...

, officer (died

1644 It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once (1000(M)+500(D)+100(C)+(-10(X)+50(L))+(-1(I)+5(V)) = 1644). Events January–March * January 22 – The Royalist Oxford Parliament is first assembled by King ...

) * 9 December -

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, monarch (died

1632 Events January–March * January – The Holland's Leguer, a brothel in London, is closed after having been besieged for a month. * February 22 – Galileo's ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is pub ...

) * -

Stormor i Dalom Margareta Hansdotter, also called ''Säbråzynthia'' (1594–1657), was a Swedish vicar's wife famous in history by the name Stormor i Dalom (The Great Mother of Dalom). She was given the name ''Stormor i Dalom'' during her own lifetime because of ...

, vicar's wife and matriarch (died

1657 Events January–March * January 8 – Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed, in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell, by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London, and arrested. * Febru ...

)

Deaths

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References

Years of the 16th century in Sweden

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