1779 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1779 in Sweden

Incumbents

Monarch – Gustav III

- Carl Wilhelm Scheele creates Glycerol.

- The first theater in Gothenburg, Comediehuset, is inaugurated.

26 July - Erik Gustaf Göthe, sculptor (died 1838)

20 August - Jöns Jacob Berzelius, chemist (died 1848)

15 October - Johan Olof Wallin, orator, poet and archbishop (died 1839)

- Charlotta Aurora De Geer, salonist (died 1834)

16 November - Pehr Kalm, explorer (born 1716)

- Henrika Juliana von Liewen, salonist (born 1709)

Jean François Beylon, courtier (born 1717)

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