Events from the year 1596 in Sweden

• Monarch – Sigismund

• - An embassy from Poland arrive to support the personal union between Sweden and Poland.
• 25 November - A peasant uprising in the province of Finland results in the Cudgel War.^[1]
• - Archbishop Abraham Angermannus organizes a religious inspection tour through the provinces to eradicate all remains of Catholicism, Paganism and other non-Lutheran practices.
• - Sweden is afflicted with bad harvests and subsequent hunger.

• 1 January - Elizabeth Ribbing, morganatic consort of prince Carl Philip (died 1662)
• - Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden, princess (died 1618)
• - Andreas Virginius, nobleman from Pomerania invited by King Gustav II in 1631^[2]
• - Johan Banér, Field Marshal and soldier in the Thirty Years War (died 1641)
• - Ebba Brahe, love interest of King Gustavus Adolphus (died 1674)

• - Karin Hansdotter, royal lover (born 1539)
• 13 February - Charles II, the tenth overall and fourth York monarch