1596 in Sweden

Events from the year 1596 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Sigismund

Events

 * - An embassy from Poland arrive to support the personal union between Sweden and Poland.
 * 25 November - A peasant uprising in the province of Finland results in the Cudgel War.
 * - Archbishop Abraham Angermannus organizes a religious inspection tour through the provinces to eradicate all remains of Catholicism, Paganism and other non-Lutheran practices.
 * - Sweden is afflicted with bad harvests and subsequent hunger.

Births

 * 1 January - Elizabeth Ribbing, morganatic consort of prince Carl Philip  (died 1662)
 * - Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, princess (died 1618)
 * - Johan Banér, Field Marshal (died 1641)
 * - Ebba Brahe, love interest of King Gustavus Adolphus  (died 1674)

Deaths

 * - Karin Hansdotter, royal lover (born 1539)