Events from the year 1691 in Sweden Monarch – Charles XI - Barnängens manufaktur is established in Stockholm. - The city of Jönköping burns down. - The...

1691 (MDCXCI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1691st...

Sven Andersson (1668–1691), was a Swedish farmhand from Vättle in Västergötland, who was executed for having sexual intercourse with a bergsrå (a mountain-nymph;...

been kings in what now is the Kingdom of Sweden for more than a millennium. Originally an elective monarchy, it became a hereditary monarchy in the 16th...

The year 1691 in science and technology involved some significant events. Italian Jesuit scholar Filippo Bonanni publishes the results of his microscopic...

Charles Emil Lewenhaupt the Elder (28 March 1691 – 4 August 1743) was a Swedish general. Lewenhaupt was born to Count Carl Gustaf Löwenhaupt and Countess...

A governor-general (Swedish: generalguvernör) was appointed by the Swedish monarch as his permanent representative, with both civil and military jurisdiction...

Swedish Ingria (Swedish: Svenska Ingermanland, ‘land of Ingrians’) was a dominion of the Swedish Empire from 1583 to 1595 and then again from 1617 to 1721...

The Swedish slave trade mainly occurred in the early history of Sweden when the trade of thralls (Old Norse: þræll) was one of the pillars of the Norse...

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...