title: 1678 in Sweden
text: # 1678 in Sweden
  
  Events from the year 1678 in Sweden
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Charles XI
  
  ## Events
  
  * 18 January - Battle of Warksow
  * Siege of Bohus Fortress.
  * Medevi is founded.
  * Swedish Pomerania is occupied by Brandenburg.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Maria Faxell, war heroine (died 1738)
  * Hans Hysing, swedish born portrait-painter in England (died 1752 or 1753)
  