1623 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1623 in Sweden
Incumbents
Events
- à bo (Turku) hovrätt is created as the court of appeal in the Swedish province of Finland.
- Johannes Rudbeck founds Rudbeckianska Gymnasiet, the first gymnasium in Sweden.
- Sweden places a blockade on Danzig in fear of it being used for a Polish attack on Sweden.
- Stockholm is tormented by the plague.
- The city street trade outside the guilds, MÃ¥nglare, is regulated by permit which are only to be issued to people in need of support and by regulations set to protect the monopoly of the guilds.[1]
Births
- 16 July â Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, diplomat (died 1702)