- The first regulation of the Romani, Placat om Tatrarnes fördrifvande av landet, declare all Romani expelled from Sweden: all adult men are sentenced to death while women and children are to be hunted over the borders.
- Gese Wechel becomes the first female manager of the Swedish Post Office.
Births
- Axel Julius De la Gardie, field marshal and governor general (died 1710)
- Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck, countess and landowner (died 1723)
