1528 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1528 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav I

Events

• January 12 - King Gustav I is crowned in Uppsala, without the customary oath to confirm the power of the bishops.
• - The last Catholic arch bishop of Sweden, Johannes Magnus, leaves for Italy because of his run in with King Gustav I where they fought each other with cudgels fashioned from boar skulls and spruce branches, Magnus almost getting violently massacred.
• - The Evangelical psalms of Olaus Petri is published.
• - The customary fortress of the Finnish bishop is dismantled by royal decree.
• - The King subdues the second of the Dalecarlian Rebellions: Christina Gyllenstierna is forced to write a public statement that the leader, the so-called Daljunkern ("The youngster from Dalarna"), was not her son, and that of all the sons she had with regent Sten, the only son alive was Svante. ^[1] The Daljunkern flees abroad, where he is arrested an executed in Germany.

Deaths

• - Nils Stensson Sture, rebel leader (born 1512)
• - Barbro Stigsdotter, heroine (born 1472)

References

1. Kristina Nilsdotter Gyllenstierna, urn:sbl:13412, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Hans Gillingstam), hämtad 2015-03-10.