Events from the year 1544 in Sweden

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Gustav I (1523 - 1560)

Events

  • January 13 - The Västerås arvförening declare Sweden to be a Hereditary monarchy, with the right of the eldest legitimate son to be heir to the throne and the younger sons to be Dukes. It is also officially declared a Protestant Kingdom: Requiem, the worship of saints and pilgrimages is banned, crucifixes is removed from the churches, and the opposition to the new religious order is declared heretics.
  • - Olaus Magnus is appointed Catholic Arch Bishop of Sweden by the pope in his exile in Rome.
  • The former nuns of the Skänninge Abbey are forcibly moved to Vreta Abbey.

Births

Deaths

  • - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic archbishop (born 1488)

References



NumisBids Tauler & Fau Subastas Auction 132, Lot 1544 Sweden

Map of Sweden 15241660

Sweden in 1660 Stormakt, Karta, Finland

A 14th century political history of Sweden, part 1 The beginning

Historic Map Sweden, Scandinavia Schweden und Norwegen, 1847 Atlas v