Events from the year 1716 in Sweden

• Monarch – Charles XII

• February – Charles XII gives Georg Heinrich von Görtz the responsibility of internal affairs.
• 8 April – Swedish Wismar is taken.
• 6 September – Charles XII makes Lund his base.
• - Suecia antiqua et hodierna by Erik Dahlbergh.

• 30 January - Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, architect (died 1796)
• - Pehr Kalm, botanist, naturalist (died 1779)
• - Karl Gustaf Ekeberg, explorer (died 1784)
• - Anna Margareta Salmelin, war heroine (died 1789)
• - Helena Malheim, midwife (died 1795)^[1]

• - Carl Piper, politician (born 1647)