1679 in Sweden

Years in Sweden:	1676 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682
Centuries:	16th century · 17th century · 18th century
Decades:	1640s 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s
Years:	1676 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682

Karlskrona founding fathers

Events from the year 1679 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XI

Events

• Treaties of Nijmegen
• 19 June - Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679)
• 5 February 1679 (NS) / January 26, 1679 (OS) - Treaty of Celle
• 16 September (O.S.) / 26 September - The Peace of Lund ends the Scanian War between Denmark-Norway and the Swedish Empire.
• Atlantica (Atland eller Manheim in Swedish) by Olaus Rudbeck, where he purported to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.^[1]

Births

• 7 March - Carl Gyllenborg, politician and writer (died 1744)
• Magnus Bromelius, physician and paleontologist (died 1731)

Deaths

• November - Lisbetha Olsdotter, female soldier and cross dresser (year of birth unknown)

References

1. Auroux, Sylvain, ed. (2006). History of the Language Sciences: An International Handbook on the Evolution of Language Sciences. Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-016735-2, pp. 1125-1126.