1571 in Sweden

Laurentius Petri (Nericius), Archbishop of Uppsala, SBH

Events from the year 1571 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – John III

Events

• 16 march - The Russian Siege of Reval in Swedish Estonia ends.
• March - Swedish victory over the Russians in the Battle of Ubagall.
• August - The deposed monarch and his family is taken to Åland.
• October - The deposed monarch and his family is taken to Gripsholm Castle.
• - A tax is introduced in order to pay the Danish ransom of Älvsborg.
• - The church order of Laurentius Petri is finally accepted.
• - The education system is officially transferred to the Lutheran Church from the former Catholic church.
• - The creation of the Swedish Church Ordinance 1571, the first complete order of the Protestant Swedish church. The church ordinance also includes a chapter about schooling, in which all children in the cities, regardless of sex, are to be given elementary schooling. ^[1]
• - The ban from 1560 is retracted and the church are permitted to baptize, marry and bury the Romani. ^[2]
• - The church ordinance declare that a son or son-in-law of a priest should be chosen first to succeed him as parish vicar. ^[3]

Births

• Anders Bure, cartographer

Deaths

• Gustaf Olofsson Stenbock, nobleman and freiherr

References

1. Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013
2. Hadenius, Stig, Nilsson, Torbjörn & Åselius, Gunnar, Sveriges historia: vad varje svensk bör veta, Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1996
3. Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen: Kyrkomiljö på Jamtli (2007) Östersund (Swedish)