1540 in Sweden

Events from the year 1540 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Gustav I

Events

 * 4 January - Prince Erik is officially greeted as heir to the throne by nobility and bishops in Örebro.
 * January - The reformers Olaus Petri and Laurentius Andreae are sentenced to treason but pardoned.
 * - The first Evangelic mass is held in Vadstena Abbey.
 * - Georg Norman inspects the churches in Västergötland and Östergötland, confiscates superfluous church valuables and registers dissident priests.

Births

 * November - Princess Cecilia of Sweden, princess (died 1627)
 * - Abraham Angermannus, archbishop (died 1607)