1637 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1637 in Sweden
Incumbents
Events
- The first regulation of the Romani, 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.[1]
- Gese Wechel becomes the first female manager of the Swedish Post Office.
- The New Sweden Company is endorsed by the Swedish Government.[2]
December
- Peter Minuit from Holland sails to Delaware in order to create a settlement called New Sweden.[3]
Births
- Axel Julius De la Gardie, field marshal and governor general (died 1710)
- Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck, countess and landowner (died 1723)
