1747 in Sweden

Events from the year 1747 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick I

Events

• May - Alliance between Sweden and France; Sweden is to receive subsidies.
• May - Defense alliance between Sweden and Prussia.
• 5 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin President of the Riksdag.
• - The government of the Hats (party) has the physician of the monarch, A. Blackwell, executed for treason.
• - Pehr Kalm travel to North America.
• The Vadstena adliga jungfrustift begin its activity.

Births

• 26 March - Elis Schröderheim, politician (died 1795)
• - Adolf Ludvig Hamilton, politician, memoir writer (died 1802)
• 24 February - Ulla von Liewen, royal lover (died 1775)
• - Maria Aurora Uggla, royal favorite (died 1826)
• - Margareta Seuerling, actress (died 1820)
• 25 July - Johanna Lohm, educator (died 1834)
• Carl Johan Ingman, spy (died 1813)

Deaths

• 19 June – Jakob Benzelius, archbishop (born 1683)
• 8 August - MÃ¥rten Triewald, engineer and physicist (born 1691)

References