1675 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1675 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XI
Events
- War between Sweden and the Netherlands.
- The King is engaged to Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark.
- June 18 - Battle of Fehrbellin
- War between Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire.
- Scanian War
- Coronation of the King.
- The King retracts the Court leet of the nobility.
- Law on the right to draft Romani males to military service.
- June - 71 people are executed in the Torsåker witch trials, the biggest witch trial in the history of the country.[1]
Births
- January 27 - Erik Benzelius the younger, librarian, theologian, and bishop. Died 1743.
- Born sometime around 1675 - Ingeborg Jonsdotter, married Olaus Persson and had 1 child, Per Olofsson. She died April 2, 1769.[2]
Deaths
- Margareta Beijer, managing director of the Swedish Post Office, Postverket from 1669 until 1673 (born 1625)
- Gertrud Svensdotter, notorious witch witness (born 1656)
- Brita Rosladin (born 1626)
