Events from the year 1538 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Gustav I
Events
3 March - Marriage between Svante Stensson Sture and Martha Leijonhufvud. The king breaks with the reformers Olaus Petri and Laurentius Andreæ. Conrad von Pyhy appointed Lord High Chancellor of Sweden. The monarch fail to ally Sweden with the Schmalkaldic League. The Variarum rerum vocabula is published in Sweden.
Births Hogenskild Bielke, soldier and politician (d. 1605) Margareta Birgersdotter Grip, writer and genealogist (d. 1586) Laurentius Nicolai, Jesuit (d. 1622) 13 December - Sigrid Sture, noblewoman and county governor (d. 1613)
Deaths
Hans Brask, bishop (born 1464) Anna Germundsdotter, abbess
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