1749 in Sweden

Events from the year 1749 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick I

Events

• - Treaty between Sweden and Denmark.
• - Statistics Sweden
• - Carl Linnaeus conduct his trip to Scania.
• - Street lights are introduced in the capital when every house owner are obliged to place a light of some kind upon their house to light up the street. In practice, however, this instruction is insufficient.
• - The Agricultural revolution, the Great Partition, in which farmers are given united land in individual farms rather than having their land spread in several fields around a village, is initiated in Sweden by Jacob Faggot.
• - A new regulation is issued were the permits of street trade (MÃ¥nglare), at the time already one of the most common for destitute city women, is henceforth to be given foremost in favor of women in need of supporting themselves.

Births

• 2 January - Carl Gustaf Nordin, historian and ecclesiastic (died 1812)
• 28 April - Adolf Fredrik Munck, royal favorite (died 1831)
• - Sofia Lovisa Gråå, educator (died 1835)
• - Ulla von Höpken, courtier (died 1810)

Deaths

• - Johan August Meijerfeldt, general (born 1665)
• 23 July - Ingeborg i Mjärhult, natural healer, medicine woman, herbalist, natural philosopher, soothsayer and spiritual visionary (born 1665)

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