Events from the year 1622 in Sweden

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...

– Gustaf II Adolf

Births

* 15 October - Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, statesman and military (died

1686 Events January–March * January 3 – In Madras (now Chennai) in India, local residents employed by the East India Company threaten to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator William Gyfford imposes a house tax on res ...

) * 8 November - Charles X Gustav of Sweden, monarch (died 1660) * Elizabeth Carlsdotter Gyllenhielm, courtier and illegitimate royal (died

1682 Events January–March * January 7 – The Republic of Genoa forbids the unauthorized printing of newspapers and all handwritten newssheets; the ban is lifted after three months. * January 12 – Scottish minister James Re ...

)

Deaths

* 25 January -

Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland Prince Charles Philip of Sweden, Duke of Södermanland, (''Swedish: Carl Filip''; Alt-Anzen (Vana-Antsla Parish, Antsla), 22 April 1601 – Narva, 25 January 1622) was a Swedish prince, Duke of Södermanland, Närke and Värmland. Charles Ph ...

, prince (died

1601 This Epoch (reference date)#Computing, epoch is the beginning of the 400-year Gregorian leap-year cycle within which digital files first existed; the last year of any such cycle is the only leap year whose year number is divisible by 100. Jan ...

) * Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby, soldier and politician (died

1576 Year 1576 ( MDLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 20 – Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza founds the settlement of León ...

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References

Years of the 17th century in Sweden Sweden {{Sweden-year-stub