1639 in Sweden

Events from the year 1639 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christina

Events

 * 14 April – Battle of Chemnitz took place near the town of Chemnitz, in what is now eastern Germany, during the Thirty Years' War. Swedish forces under Johan Banér inflicted a crushing defeat on Rodolfo Giovanni Marazzino who commanded the Saxons and an Imperial detachment.
 * Hjälmare kanal taken in to use.
 * Case of Anna von Hintzen, a noble who flees Sweden to escape arrest of the murder of her servant.

Births

 * 5 January – Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck, military officer (d. 1688)
 * 21 January – Märta Berendes, courtier and diary writer (d. 1717)