1774 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1774 in Sweden

Incumbents

Monarch – Gustav III

28 April – The Freedom of the press is restricted.

7 June - Wedding between Prince Charles and Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.

- Aaron Isaac emigrate to Stockholm from Germany: he is the first Jew who is granted permission to immigrate to Sweden.

- Maria Christina Bruhn presents her invention, a package for gunpowder to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

11 February - Hans Järta, administrator and revolutionary (died 1847)

17 November - Lisa Erlandsdotter, tapistry maker (died 1854)

31 March - Johan Peter Falk, botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (born 1733)

24 September - Margaretha Donner, business woman (born 1726)

4 October - Märta Ljungberg, innkeeper (born 1656)

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