1668 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1668 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XI
- Regency â Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, Per Brahe the Younger, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Gustaf Otto Stenbock, Seved Bååth and Knut Kurck.
Events
- == Events ==
- January 28 â Lund University is officially inaugurated with great ceremony in Lund Cathedral on the King's name day.[1]
- April 25 â The Swedish Empire signs a treaty in Westminster to join England and the Dutch Republic in the Triple Alliance, a coalition formed to halt the expansion of Louis XIV of France during the War of Devolution[2]
- July â The Mora witch trial begins in Dalarna after accusations by a young shepherd girl, Gertrud Svensdotter. This marks the start of the "Great Noise" (Det stora oväsendet), a period of mass witch-hunt hysteria that lasted until 1676.[3]
- September 17 â Riksens Ständers Bank (The Bank of the Estates of the Realm), the oldest central bank in the world, is established in Stockholm to replace the failed Stockholms Banco.[4]
- December 28 â The Swedish ambassador Fritz Cronman arrives in Moscow to represent the Swedish Empire at the court of the Russian Empire.
Births
- April 14 â Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (died 1741).
- September 2 â Margareta von Ascheberg, Swedish noblewoman and land owner (died 1753).
- Sven Andersson, farmworker executed for sodomy (died 1691).
Deaths
- Count Christopher Delphicus zu Dohna (died 1668)
- August 28 â Axel Itze, Swedish military officer.
- Johan Palmstruch, founder of Stockholms Banco (born 1611).
