Events from the year 1594 in Sweden, Gustavus II Adolphus succeeded his father, Charles IX, as King of Sweden in 1611. He is depicted here by an unknown artist wearing a slashed black doublet and white falling collar in a miniature that must date to around 1620.

• Monarch – Sigismund

• - John III is buried.
• - Sigismund is crowned.
• - Vadstena Abbey is given a new Catholic priest.
• - Sigismund leaves for his other Kingdom, Poland, and appoints his uncle Duke Charles regent in his absence.

• 1 September - Torsten Stålhandske, officer (died 1644)
• 9 December - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, monarch (died 1632)
• - Stormor i Dalom, vicar's wife and matriarch (died 1657)