1696 in Sweden

Events from the year 1696 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles XI

Events

 * The Velthen Company perform in Stockholm.
 * A repeated failed harvest results in the culmination and continuation of the Great Famine.
 * Kalmar Nation at Lund University is first mentioned.

Births

 * - Henrietta Polyxena of Vasaborg, princess (died 1777)

Deaths

 * March - Jean de la Vallée, architect (born 1620)
 * June - Greta Duréel, accomplice in the Great Jewel Fraud of the Swedish National Bank (born year unknown)