1708 in Sweden

Events from the year 1708 in Sweden

Swedish plan on the battle

"Kgl. Academ[ien]s sjukhus", also known as the Nosocomium Academicum (in the Oxenstierna Palace), is seen to the right in this 1769 engraving by F. Akrelius. To the left the old chapter house, later used by the university and renamed Academia Carolina.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XII

Events

• 1 January - Sweden begins to invade Russia
• 4 July – Swedish victory over Russia at the Battle of Holowczyn.^[1]
• The Uppsala University Hospital is founded.

Births

• 29 August – Olof von Dalin, poet (died 1763)
• - Sven Rosén (Pietist), Radical-Pietistic writer and leader (died 1751)

Deaths

• – Görwel Gyllenstierna, female duelist (born 1646)
• – Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie, poet (born 1661)
• – Maria Jonae Palmgren, scholar, one of the first female college students (born 1630)
• 11 November – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, princess (born 1681)
• – Anna Maria Clodt, courtier