1727 in Sweden

Events from the year 1727 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick I

Events

• July - The Mauritz Vellingk affair: he is sentenced to death for contact with Russia, but the sentence is commuted.
• - The Holstein Party is dissolved.
• Lithographiæ Svecanæ Specimen Secundum by Magnus Bromelius is published.

Births

• Carolus Linnaeus
• Adolf Frederick, later on reigned as the king of sweden
• Ingeborg Norell, heroine

Deaths

• 24 January - Magdalena Stenbock, politically active countess and salonnière (born 1649)
• - Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld, linguist, diarist (born 1655)

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