Events from the year 1599 in Sweden When King John III dies in 1592 his son Sigismund accede to the Swedish throne. Conflict arose when Duke Charles, the...

November 10 – The Åbo Bloodbath takes place in Åbo, Swedish Finland. November – Persian embassy to Europe (1599–1602): A diplomatic delegation from Safavid...

of both Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (that is, the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania). Lasting from 1598 to 1599, it is also...

Polish–Swedish union was a short-lived personal union between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Sweden between 1592 and 1599. It began...

which officially confirmed the modern Church of Sweden as Lutheran. Following his deposition in 1599, Sigismund attempted to reclaim the throne at every...

Catholicism in the Swedish church endured until the reigns of King John III (1568–1592) and the Catholic King Sigismund of Poland and Sweden (1592–1599). At...

The Åbo Bloodbath (Swedish: Åbo blodbad; Finnish: Turun verilöyly) of 10 November 1599 was a public execution in the Finnish town of Turku (Åbo), then...

in the same place, was the public mass execution of 22 men in Kalmar, Sweden, on 16 May 1599. All of the victims were members of the garrison from Kalmar...

involving the Kingdom of Sweden. There are legendary accounts of Swedish kings well into prehistory and they are mentioned by Tacitus in his Germania, but Olof...

heretic to the majority of the Swedish nation, and his formal deposition by the Riksdag of the Estates in 1599 was, in effect, a natural vindication and...