1715 in Sweden

Battle of Fehmarn, 1715

Events from the year 1715 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XII

Events

• 24 March - The wedding between Princess Ulrika Eleonora and Frederick of Hesse.
• 24 April - Battle of Fehmarn (1715)
• 28 April - Treaty of Stettin (1715)
• 18 August - Battle of Rügen (1715)
• - Hanover declares war on Sweden.
• - Charles XII leaves Stralsund.
• - Stralsund taken by Denmark and Prussia.
• - Charles XII arrives in Scania.
• - Lars Gathenhielm is ennobled.
• - Solar eclipse over Sweden.

Births

• 23 April - Carl Tersmeden, diarist (died 1797)
• - Carl Fredrik Scheffer, privy councillor and writer (died 1786)
• 1715 – Asmund Palm, Swedish consul and merchant (d. 1780)

Deaths

• 24 November - Queen Dowager Hedwig Eleonora, queen dowager (born 1636)

External links

Media related to 1715 in Sweden at Wikimedia Commons