1714 in Sweden
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XII
Events
- 9 February - Russian victory at the Battle of Storkyro. As a result, all of Finland fell under Russian military occupation for the rest of the war, a seven-year period of hardship known in Finland as the Great Wrath.
- 7 August - Battle of Gangut
- - Creation of the Stockholm County.
- - The Anna Jöransdotter case.
Births
- 9 January - Elisabeth Stierncrona, writer (died 1769)
- 21 April - Anna Maria Hilfeling, miniaturist (died 1783)
- 31 October - Hedvig Taube, royal mistress (died 1744)
- 25 December - Israel Acrelius, priest (died 1800)
Deaths
- 17 April â Haquin Spegel, author and hymn writer (born 1645)
- 19 April â Cornelius Anckarstierna, admiral (born 1655)
- â Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock, courtier (born 1658)
