Events from the year 1608inSweden Monarch – Charles IX - Swedish conquest of Dünamünde, Kokenhusen and Fellin. - The King has the laws of the Kingdom...
1608 (MDCVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1608th year...
Ridder (1608–1692) was the governor of the Swedish colony of New Sweden from 1640 until 1643. Peter Hollander Ridder's father was a Dutchman living in Ekenäs...
Charles IX, also Carl (Swedish: Karl IX; 4 October 1550 – 30 October 1611), reigned as King of Sweden from 1604 until his death. He was the youngest son...
priests of the Church of Sweden Reorus Torkillus (1608–1643), first Lutheran clergyman assigned to New Sweden Church of Sweden Roman Catholic Church Archbishop...
urban areas inSweden as defined by Statistics Sweden on 31 December 2010. The official term used by Statistics Sweden is "locality" (Swedish: tätort) instead...
then from 1608 Duke of Ostrogothia. The young duke married his first cousin Maria Elisabet (1596–1618), daughter of Charles IX of Sweden (reigned 1599–1611)...
(1577–1645), Swedish politician Karl Skytte (1908–1986), Danish politician Maria Skytte (died 1703), Swedish noblewoman Vendela Skytte (1608–1629), Swedish noblewoman...
(Fältmarskalk) of Sweden, with their respective years of appointment, from the 16th to the 19th century. List of wars involving Sweden List of Swedish military...
Women inSweden has changed several times throughout the history of Sweden. These changes have been affected by the culture, religion and laws of Sweden, as...
article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1608. January 10 – Ben Jonson's The Masque of Beauty is performed by Queen Anne...
was a Swedish theologian, astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala. Gothus was born Lars Paulsson at Söderköping in Östergötland County, Sweden. In 1588,...
O'Byrne (1534–1597) Feidhlimidh Riabhach Mac Dhaibheid (d. 1608) Cathaoir Ó Dochartaigh (1587–1608) Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) Redmond O'Hanlon (c. 1640–1681)...
Poland and Sweden under one Catholic kingdom, and when he succeeded his deceased father in 1592 the Polish–Swedish union was created. Opposition in Protestant...
of Protestant German states. It was formed on 14 May 1608 by Frederick IV, Elector Palatine in order to defend the rights, land and safety of each member...
became a general guide of justice in the Swedish realm in1608 and remained in force until the new law of the realm in 1734. However, the law was often...
diplomat, translator, and poet December 8 – Vendela Skytte (died 1629), Swedish poet and lady of letters December 9 – John Milton (died 1674), English...
The Thornton expedition was a 1608 Tuscan expedition under Captain Robert Thornton, an Englishman, sent by Ferdinando I of Tuscany to explore northern...
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