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1786 in Sweden

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1786 in Sweden

Events from the year 1786 in Sweden

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Incumbents

  • Monarch – Gustav III

    • Events

  • 5 April - The Royal Swedish Academy is founded.
  • 1 May – King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Stockholm.
  • 23 June - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved.
  • - The first school to give higher education to female students, the Societetsskolan, is founded in Gothenburg.
  • - Foundation of the Swedish West India Company
  • - Maria Christina Bruhn becomes the first woman to be given a patent as an inventor in Sweden.
  • - The first hot air balloons are released in Sweden by the popular acrobat Antonio Bartolomeo Spinacuta.

    • Births

  • 19 January – Carl Gustaf Kröningssvärd, lawyer and historian (died 1859)
  • 13 May - Anna Ehrenström, poet (died 1857)
  • 8 August - Bengt Erland Fogelberg, sculptor (died 1854)
  • 18 September – Leonhard Fredrik Rääf, folklorist, local historian and conservative politician (died 1872)

    • Deaths

  • 18 March – Gustaf Lundberg, painter (born 1695)
  • 11 May - Anna Sofia Ramström, courtier (born 1738)
  • 15 May - Eva Ekeblad, scientist (born 1724)
  • 21 May – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, pharmaceutical chemist (born 1745)
  • 22 May – Carl Fredrik Mennander, bishop (born 1712)

    • References

    1786 in Sweden Wikipedia
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