1538 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav I

Events

• 3 March - Marriage between Svante Stensson Sture and Martha Leijonhufvud.
• The king breaks with the reformers Olaus Petri and Laurentius Andreæ.
• Conrad von Pyhy appointed Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
• The monarch fail to ally Sweden with the Schmalkaldic League.
• The Variarum rerum vocabula is published in Sweden.

Births

• Hogenskild Bielke, soldier and politician
• Margareta Birgersdotter Grip, writer and genealogist
• Laurentius Nicolai, Jesuit
• 13 December - Sigrid Sture, noblewoman and county governor

Deaths

• Hans Brask, bishop
• Anna Germundsdotter, abbess