Events from the year 1691 in Sweden Monarch – Charles XI - Barnängens manufaktur is established in Stockholm. - The city of Jönköping burns down. - The...
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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...
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Sven Andersson (farmworker) (category 1691 in law)
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;...
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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...
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The year 1691 in science and technology involved some significant events. Italian Jesuit scholar Filippo Bonanni publishes the results of his microscopic...
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Charles Emil Lewenhaupt (category 1691 births)
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...
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A governor-general (Swedish: generalguvernör) was appointed by the Swedish monarch as his permanent representative, with both civil and military jurisdiction...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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