Events from the year 1586 in Sweden. Monarch – John III The Örebro kyrkomöte (Örebro Church Council) is held as a protest to the pro-Catholic church policy...

Charles IX, also Carl (Swedish: Karl IX; 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611), reigned as King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son...

Christina (Swedish: Kristina; 18 December [O.S. 8 December] 1626 – 19 April 1689) was a member of the House of Vasa and the Queen of Sweden in her own right...

John Ford (1586 – c. 1639) was an English playwright and poet of the Jacobean and Caroline eras born in Ilsington in Devon, England. His plays deal mainly...

The following is a family tree of all the Kings of Sweden, from Eric the Victorious down to the present day....

The Babington Plot was a plan in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, a Protestant, and put Mary, Queen of Scots, her Catholic cousin, on the English...

reigned in Russia, they were commonly called Romanov, or more rarely, Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov. Dukes of Schleswig and Holstein at Gottorp: 1544–1586: Adolf...

Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy existed for nearly a century. In 1784, one of French king Louis XVI's ministers ceded Saint Barthélemy to Sweden in...

Holstein-Gottorp, Duke (1586–1587) Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duke (1587–1590) Christian IV of Denmark, Duke (1588–1648) Sweden History of Sweden (1523–1611)...

II, but those plans did not come to fruition either. In 1586-1587, when Prince Sigismund of Sweden was elected king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania...