1596 in Sweden
# 1596 in Sweden

Events from the year 1596 in Sweden

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Sigismund

## Events

* - An embassy from Poland arrive to support the personal union between Sweden and Poland.
* 25 November - A peasant uprising in the province of Finland results in the Cudgel War.
* - Archbishop Abraham Angermannus organizes a religious inspection tour through the provinces to eradicate all remains of Catholicism, Paganism and other non-Lutheran practices.
* - Sweden is afflicted with bad harvests and subsequent hunger.

## Births

* 1 January - Elizabeth Ribbing, morganatic consort of prince Carl Philip (died 1662)
* - Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, princess (died 1618)
* - Johan Banér, Field Marshal (died 1641)
* - Ebba Brahe, love interest of King Gustavus Adolphus (died 1674)

## Deaths

* - Karin Hansdotter, royal lover (born 1539)
