1654 in Sweden
# 1654 in Sweden

Events from the year 1654 in Sweden.

## Incumbents

* Monarch - Christina then Charles X Gustav

## Events

* April - The 1654 Anglo-Swedish alliance is forged to offset the Danish-Dutch alliance.
* 6 June - Charles X Gustav succeeds his cousin Christina on the Swedish throne. After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.
* 24 October - The wedding between Charles X Gustav and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp.

## Births

* 23 May - Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, architect (died 1728)
* 6 October - Johan Peringskiöld, antiquarian (died 1720)
* Anna Lohe, banker (died 1731)

## Deaths

* 25 January - Ebba Mauritzdotter Leijonhufvud, courtier (born 1595)
* 28 August - Axel Oxenstierna, politician (born 1583)
* Louise van der Nooth, courtier (born 1630s)
