1724 in Sweden

Events from the year 1724 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick I

Events

• - Defense treaty between Sweden and Russia.
• - The Product Act ban all foreign ships to import products from any other nations than their own.
• - New law on schooling: all parents are obliged to learn their children read and write, or have teachers to do so. This law is in effect until 1807.

Births

• 16 January - Per Krafft the Elder, portraitist (died 1793)
• 10 July - Eva Ekeblad, scientist (died 1786)
• - Ulrika Strömfelt, politically active courtier (died 1780)

Deaths

• 20 September - David von Krafft, painter (born 1655)
• - Urban Hjärne, chemist (born 1641)
• - Beata Sparre, politically active courtier (born 1662)

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