1538 in Sweden

Events from the year 1538 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Gustav I

Events

 * 3 March - Marriage between Svante Stensson Sture and Martha Leijonhufvud.
 * The king breaks with the reformers Olaus Petri and Laurentius Andreæ.
 * Conrad von Pyhy appointed Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
 * The monarch fail to ally Sweden with the Schmalkaldic League.
 * The Variarum rerum vocabula is published in Sweden.

Births

 * Hogenskild Bielke, soldier and politician (died 1605)
 * Margareta Birgersdotter Grip, writer and genealogist   (died 1586)
 * Laurentius Nicolai, Jesuit (died 1622)
 * 13 December - Sigrid Sture, noblewoman and county governor  (died 1613)

Deaths

 * Hans Brask, bishop (born 1464)
 * Anna Germundsdotter, abbess