title: 1651 in Sweden
text: # 1651 in Sweden
  
  Events from the year 1651 in Sweden
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Christina
  
  ## Events
  
  * Queen Christina declared her wish to abdicate in favor of her cousin, but is convinced not to.
  * National Board of Trade (Sweden) is founded
  * National law of hotels states that all hotels must have at least three bedrooms except the one of the proprietor.
  * The Queen's favorite Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie loses favor with the monarch.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, field marshal (died 1722)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 7 April - Lennart Torstensson, field marshal (born 1603)
  * Arnold Johan Messenius, historian (born 1607)
  