1558 in Sweden
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This article is about events from the year 1558 in Sweden.
Incumbents
Events
January
- 28 January - Russian attack on Livonia starts the Livonian War
February
- The King bans the use of oak for anything other than as building material for the royal navy.
- Petrus Follingius is appointed and consecrated as Bishop of Turku, succeeding Mikael Agricola.
Undated
- Jöran Persson appointed royal secretary.
- Crown Prince Eric proposes to Elizabeth I of England.
- Danviken Hospital is founded.[1]
- A new order of mass, Liturgia eller Then Svenska Messordning, is published in both Latin and Swedish.
Births
- 8 March - Gustaf Brahe, official (d. 1615)
