Events from the year 1571 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – John III
Events
16 march - The Russian Siege of Reval in Swedish Estonia ends. March - Swedish victory over the Russians in the Battle of Ubagall. August - The deposed monarch and his family is taken to Åland. October - The deposed monarch and his family is taken to Gripsholm Castle. - A tax is introduced in order to pay the Danish ransom of Älvsborg. - The church order of Laurentius Petri is finally accepted. - The education system is officially transferred to the Lutheran Church from the former Catholic church. - The creation of the Swedish Church Ordinance 1571, the first complete order of the Protestant Swedish church. The church ordinance also includes a chapter about schooling, in which all children in the cities, regardless of sex, are to be given elementary schooling.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013 - The ban from 1560 is retracted and the church are permitted to baptize, marry and bury the Romani.Hadenius, Stig, Nilsson, Torbjörn & Åselius, Gunnar, Sveriges historia: vad varje svensk bör veta, Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1996 - The church ordinance declare that a son or son-in-law of a priest should be chosen first to succeed him as parish vicar.Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen: Kyrkomiljö på Jamtli (2007) Östersund (Swedish)
Births Anders Bure, cartographer
Deaths Gustaf Olofsson Stenbock, nobleman and freiherr
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