1670 in Sweden

Events from the year 1670 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles XI

Events

 * February 22 – Laurentius Stigzelius is appointed as the new Swedish archbishop. When he was ordained shortly afterwards by Bishop Enander in Linköping, it was the last time before 1914 that a Swedish archbishop was ordained (all archbishops between Stigzelius and Nathan Söderblom are already bishops at the time of accession).

Unknown dates

 * Six people decapitated for witchcraft in Kungsälv
 * The first sods are taken to Carlsburg at the mouth of the river Weser. The city is supposed to become a Swedish support point for trade competition, but the project fails
 * Ransäter's parish was created by breaking away from Övre Ullerud's parish.

Births

 * 19 June - Olof Celsius, botanist, philologist (died 1756)
 * 12 April - Gustav, Duke of Zweibrücken, prince (died 1731)