Events from the year 1597 in Sweden Monarch – Sigismund February 24 - End of the Cudgel War. - Bad harvests again cause famine. - The Riksdag of Arboga...

1597 (MDXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1597th...

Eriksson Fleming (Swedish: Clas Eriksson Fleming; 1535 in Pargas – 13 April 1597 in Pohja) was a Finnish-born member of the Swedish nobility and admiral...

legislature to pursue the matters dividing his Swedish subjects, and invaded with a mercenary army. In April 1597, after having subdued the Cudgel War and preparing...

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...

Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (also known as Elisabet Gustavsdotter Vasa; 5 April 1549 – 20 November 1597), was a Swedish princess, and a duchess consort...

Ingrid of Sweden (Ingrid Victoria Sofia Louisa Margareta; 28 March 1910 – 7 November 2000) was Queen of Denmark from 20 April 1947 to 14 January 1972 as...

Charles. In 1597, a civil war erupted and Duke Charles was able to assume control over a large share of the powerful castles in Sweden, and in this manner...

against the Turks in 1529 Christina of Salm (1575–1627), duchess consort of Lorraine Otto Louis of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen (1597–1634), Swedish general during...

January, 1597, Isokyrö) was a wealthy Ostrobothnian landowner and leader of the Cudgel War, a 16th-century Finnish peasant revolt against Swedish rule. Ilkka's...

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

(1540–1559) Menas, Emperor (1559–1563) Sarsa Dengel, Emperor (1563–1597) Yaqob, Emperor (1597–1603, 1604–1606) Ennarea (complete list) – Kaba Seyon, Hinnare-tato...

Louise of Sweden (Swedish: Lovisa Josefina Eugenia; 31 October 1851 – 20 March 1926) was Queen of Denmark from 1906 until 1912 as the wife of King Frederick...

high taxes, and abuse by military personnel. This resulted in the Cudgel War of 1596–1597, a desperate peasant rebellion, which was suppressed brutally...

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden traces its roots to the War against Sigismund. In this civil war (1597–1599), Sigismund III Vasa, at one time...

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...

Lithuania, was crowned King of Sweden following the death of his father John III. The union ended following a civil war in Sweden in which he lost the crown...

a consort has changed much over the centuries. The first Swedish consorts are spoken of in legends. Consorts until c. 1000 are often semi-legendary,...

Anna Vasa of Sweden (also Anne, Polish: Anna Wazówna; 17 May 1568 – 26 February 1625) was a Swedish princess heavily involved in the politics of that...

Johan Baptista or Hans van Uther (died 1597) was a Dutch Renaissance painter, active in Sweden. No personal details are known about Johan Baptista van...

Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance...

consort of Sweden, also called Elizabeth Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (1549–1597), princess of Sweden and daughter of Gustav I of Sweden Elizabeth (Isabella)...

The Swedish invasion of the Holy Roman Empire or the Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years' War is a historically accepted division of the Thirty Years'...

Finnish: Nuijasota, Swedish: Klubbekriget) was a 1596–1597 peasant uprising in Finland, which was then part of the Kingdom of Sweden. The name of the uprising...

part of Sweden. The starting point of Swedish rule is uncertain and controversial. Historical evidence of the establishment of Swedish rule in Finland...

is nothing to indicate that she was in any way disregarded at court. Sigrid married two Swedish noblemen. In 1597, she married Henrik Klasson Tott (died...

of Austria (16 August 1573 – 10 February 1598) was Queen of Poland and Sweden as the first consort of King Sigismund III Vasa. Anne was a daughter of...

from 1575 or 1576 until 1590 and Lord High Chancellor of Sweden from 1593 until his execution in 1600. An esteemed orator and rhetorician, Sparre was considered...

Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597 was a series of nationwide witch trials that took place in the whole of Scotland from March to October 1597. At least 400 people...

Beauharnais; 14 March 1807 – 7 June 1876), also Josefina, was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 to 8 July 1859 as the wife of King Oscar I...