1654 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1654 in Sweden.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Christina then Charles X Gustav
Events
- April - The 1654 Anglo-Swedish alliance is forged to offset the Danish-Dutch alliance.[1]
- 6 June - Charles X Gustav succeeds his cousin Christina on the Swedish throne. After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.
- 24 October - The wedding between Charles X Gustav and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp.
Births
- 23 May - Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, architect (died 1728)
- 6 October - Johan Peringskiöld, antiquarian (died 1720)
- Anna Lohe, banker (died 1731)
Deaths
- 25 January - Ebba Mauritzdotter Leijonhufvud, courtier (born 1595)
- 28 August - Axel Oxenstierna, politician (born 1583)
- Louise van der Nooth, courtier (born 1630s)
