1639_in_Sweden
1639 in Sweden
Sweden-related events during the year of 1639
Events from the year 1639 in Sweden
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- 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.[1]
- 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.
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- 5 January – Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck, military officer (d. 1688)
- 21 January – Märta Berendes, courtier and diary writer (d. 1717)
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- Wilson, Peter Hamish (2009). The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 614. ISBN 9780674036345. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
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