Events from the year 1571 in
Sweden
Incumbents
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Monarch
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–
John III
Events
* 16 march - The Russian
Siege of Reval in
Swedish Estonia ends.
* march - Swedish victory over the Russians in the
Battle of Ubagall.
* August - The deposed monarch and his family is taken to Åland.
* October - The deposed monarch and his family is taken to
Gripsholm Castle
Gripsholm Castle ( sv, Gripsholms slott) is a castle in Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden. It is located by lake Mälaren in south central Sweden, in the municipality of Strängnäs, about 60 km west of Stockholm. Since Gustav Vasa, Gripsho ...
.
* - A tax is introduced in order to pay the Danish ransom of
Älvsborg.
* - The church order of
Laurentius Petri
Laurentius Petri Nericius (1499 – 27 October 1573) was a Swedish clergyman and the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden. He and his brother Olaus Petri are, together with the King Gustav Vasa, regarded as the main Lutheran reformer ...
is finally accepted.
* - The education system is officially transferred to the Lutheran Church from the former Catholic church.
* - The creation of the
Swedish Church Ordinance 1571, the first complete order of the Protestant Swedish church. The church ordinance also includes a chapter about schooling, in which all children in the cities, regardless of sex, are to be given elementary schooling.
* - The ban from 1560 is retracted and the church are permitted to baptize, marry and bury the Romani.
* - The church ordinance declare that a son or son-in-law of a priest should be chosen first to succeed him as parish vicar.
[Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen: Kyrkomiljö på Jamtli (2007) Östersund (Swedish)]
Births
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Deaths
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References
Years of the 16th century in Sweden
1571 by country
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