1643 in Sweden

Events from the year 1643 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christina

Events

January

• Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna issues an order that all archives, letters, and records seized during military campaigns must be inventoried, secured, and transported across the Baltic Sea to the Imperial Archives in Stockholm. ^[1]

Undated

• Johan Björnsson Printz is appointed governor of the Swedish colony of New Sweden until 1653. ^[2]
• Swedish forces, under the direction of Chancellor Oxenstierna, prepare for the Torstenson War against Denmark-Norway. ^[3]

Births

• 13 January - Axel Wachtmeister, field marshal (died 1699)
• 9 November - Christina Anna Skytte, baroness and pirate (died 1677)
• 24 December - Israel Kolmodin, hymnwriter and Lutheran priest (died 1709)
• Olof Bergh - Cape Dutch explorer and VOC official

Deaths

• 10 December - Herman Wrangel, military officer
• Bengt Bengtsson Oxenstierna, diplomat, Privy Councillor (born 1591)
• Mickel Nilsson, blacksmith in New Sweden ^[4]

References

1. Krentz, Natalie (18 July 2025). "Displaced, but not destroyed: archives in the Thirty Years' War". Springer Nature. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
2. Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Printz, Johan"  . Encyclopedia Americana .
3. "The Battle for Europe - War and Art during the Thirty Years' War - Livrustkammaren". livrustkammaren.se. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
4. "Swedish Colonial News" (PDF). Colonial Swedes. Retrieved 23 October 2025.