Events from the year 1571 in Sweden
| Years in Sweden: | 1568 1569 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574 |
| Centuries: | 15th century · 16th century · 17th century |
| Decades: | 1540s 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s 1600s |
| Years: | 1568 1569 1570 1571 1572 1573 1574 |
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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.[1]
- - The ban from 1560 is retracted and the church are permitted to baptize, marry and bury the Romani.[2]
- - The church ordinance declare that a son or son-in-law of a priest should be chosen first to succeed him as parish vicar.[3]