Events from the year 1637 in

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 ...

Incumbents

* Monarch – Christina

Events

* The first regulation of the

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, '' Placat om Tatrarnes fördrifvande av landet'', declare all Romani expelled from Sweden: all adult men are sentenced to death while women and children are to be hunted over the borders. *

Gese Wechel Gese Wechel (born in Hamburg, died in Lübeck 1645), was the managing director of the Swedish Post Office, ''Postverket'' from 1637 until 1642. She was the second director of the Swedish Post Office, and the first female postmaster in Sweden, entitl ...

becomes the first female manager of the Swedish Post Office. * The New Sweden Company is endorsed by the Swedish Government.

December

* Peter Minuit from Holland sails to Delaware in order to create a settlement called New Sweden.

Births

* Axel Julius De la Gardie, field marshal and governor general (died

1710 In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Saturday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 1 – In Prussia, Cölln is merged with Alt-Berlin b ...

) * Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck, countess and landowner (died

1723 Events January–March * January 25 – British pirate Edward Low intercepts the Portuguese ship ''Nostra Signiora de Victoria''. After the Portuguese captain throws his treasure of 11,000 gold coins into the sea rather than s ...

) * * * *

Deaths

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References

Years of the 17th century in Sweden

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