1694 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1694 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XI
Events
- - Building of the Steninge Palace
- The Great Jewel Fraud against the Swedish National Bank is exposed, in which five women, around their leader Greta Duréel, are discovered to have stolen money for years through a deposition fraud.[1]
Births
- 28 October - Johan Helmich Roman, composer (died 1758)
- - Brigitta Sahlgren, industrialist (died 1771)
Deaths
- 22 August - Maria Sofia De la Gardie, industrialist (born 1627)
- July - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, soldier and lover of Sophia Dorothea of Celle (born 1665)
