1597 in Sweden

Events from the year 1597 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Sigismund

Events

 * February 24 - End of the Cudgel War.
 * - Bad harvests again cause famine.
 * - The Riksdag of Arboga confirm Duke Charles as regent, and the loyalists of the King flees to Poland.

Deaths

 * January 27 - Jacob Ilkka, rebel leader of the Cudgel war (born 1545)
 * 13 April - Klaus Fleming, admiral and governor (born 1535)
 * 19 July - Gunilla Bielke, queen  (born 1568)
 * 20 November - Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, princess  (born 1549)
 * 11 November - Gustav of Saxe-Lauenburg, prince  (born 1570)