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    Events from the year 1621 in Sweden Monarch – Gustaf II Adolf The Swedish city of Gothenburg is founded by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. The king also grants...
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    Polish–Swedish War of 1621 to 1625 was a war in a long-running series of conflicts between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Swedish Empire....
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    1621 (MDCXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1621st year...
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    ending in -borg. Both the Swedish and German/English names were in use before 1621 and had already been used for the previous city founded in 1604 that...
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    Gothenburg stave church (category 1621 in Sweden)
    first buildings constructed since its city plan was drawn up. Completed in 1621 on one of the city's first five blocks, bounded by the streets Kungsgatan...
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  • founded in 2004. Anders Celsius (1701–1744), Swedish astronomer and inventor of the Celsius temperature scale Magnus Celsius (1621–1679), Swedish astronomer...
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    This is a list of cities in modern Sweden that once enjoyed city privileges, thus were entitled to call themselves town (Swedish: stad, plural städer)....
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    shockwaves through Europe. In 1621, the king of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, declared that the previously signed truce between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian...
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    which they won. In the battles of Lubiszew in 1577, Byczyna (1588), Kokenhausen (1601), Kircholm (1605), Klushino (1610), Chocim (1621), Martynów (1624)...
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    also known in English as Gustav II Adolf or Gustav II Adolph, was King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, and is credited with the rise of Sweden as a great...
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