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1783 in Sweden

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1783 in Sweden

Events from the year 1783 in Sweden

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Gustav III

    • Events

  • - Creation of the Walhalla-orden
  • - Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–Sweden)
  • June - Gustav III has plans to conquer the Danish province of Norway, and meet with Catherine the Great in Finland in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade her to end the Russian-Danish alliance.
  • - Norrköping jungfrustift is founded.
  • 27 September - Gustav III begun his trip to Italy and France.
  • - Bacchi Tempel, by Carl Michael Bellman
  • - Giovanna Bassi is engaged at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

    • Births

  • 12 January - Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer (died 1847)
  • 3 September - Sophie Karsten, ballerina (died 1862)
  • 22 October - Maria Johanna Görtz, artist (died 1853)
  • 18 December - Johan Niclas Byström, sculptor (died 1848)

    • Deaths

  • 26 May – Anna Maria Hilfeling, miniaturist (born 1713)
  • date unknown - Maria Katarina Öhrn, opera singer and actress (born 1756)
  • 1 November - Carl Linnaeus the Younger, naturalist (born 1741)
  • Helena Escholin, vicar's wife (born 1713)
  • Françoise-Éléonore Villain, actor (born 1761)

    • References

    1783 in Sweden Wikipedia
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