Events from the year 1640 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Christina
Events
Foundation of the University of Helsinki in the Swedish province of Finland. The first theater in Stockholm, Björngårdsteatern, is opened by Christian Thum.Dahlberg, Gunilla (1992). Komediantteatern i 1600-talets Stockholm. Stockholm: Komm. för Stockholmsforskning. Swedish soldiers and civilians land in new Sweden to trade and improve the city.
Births
Politician Anders Bengtsson was born in 1640.
Deaths
29 May - Elisabet Juliana Banér, noble (born 1600) November 27 - Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, politician (born 1587) - Åke Henriksson Tott, soldier and politician (born 1598)
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