Events from the year 1571 in Sweden
Incumbents
Monarch – John III
Events
16 march - The Russian Siege of Reval in Swedish Estonia ends. march - Swedish victory over the Russians in the Battle of Ubagall. August - The deposed monarch and his family is taken to Åland. October - The deposed monarch and his family is taken to Gripsholm Castle. - A tax is introduced in order to pay the Danish ransom of Älvsborg. - The church order of Laurentius Petri is finally accepted. - The education system is officially transferred to the Lutheran Church from the former Catholic church. - The creation of the Swedish Church Ordinance 1571, the first complete order of the Protestant Swedish church. The church ordinance also includes a chapter about schooling, in which all children in the cities, regardless of sex, are to be given elementary schooling. - The ban from 1560 is retracted and the church are permitted to baptize, marry and bury the Romani. - The church ordinance declare that a son or son-in-law of a priest should be chosen first to succeed him as parish vicar.