1689 in Sweden
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The following events occurred in the year 1689 in Sweden:
Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XI[1]
Events
- - The Riksdag of the Estates grant the monarch the right to taxation during war.
- - Opposition from the Riksdag to the monarch is deemed Lèse-majesté.
- - Helicons Blomster by Lasse Lucidor.
- - Husqvarna Group is founded.
- - Alliance between Sweden and Lüneburg toward Denmark.
Births
- - Lars Gathenhielm, pirate and royal privateer (died 1718)
- unknown - Margareta Gyllenstierna, politically active countess (died 1740)
Deaths
- 24 February - Elsa Elisabeth Brahe, duchess (born 1632)
- - Christina, Queen of Sweden, former monarch (born 1626)
- - Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, duke (born 1629)
