1540 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1540 in Sweden.
Incumbents
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- 4 January - Prince Erik is officially greeted as heir to the throne by nobility and bishops in Örebro.
- January - The reformers Olaus Petri and Laurentius Andreae are sentenced to treason but pardoned.
- - The first Evangelic mass is held in Vadstena Abbey.
- - Georg Norman inspects the churches in Västergötland and Östergötland, confiscates superfluous church valuables and registers dissident priests.
Births
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- November - Princess Cecilia of Sweden, princess (died 1627)
- - Abraham Angermannus, archbishop (died 1607)
Deaths
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