1757 in Sweden

Events from the year 1757 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Adolf Frederick

Events

• May - Sweden form an alliance with France and Austria against Prussia.
• 13 September - Sweden joins the Seven Years' War through the Pomeranian War.
• - A regulation is formed for the ongoing agricultural land reform Storskiftet.
• - People with epilepsy are banned from marrying.
• - Blockade of Stralsund
• - Gustav Badin is presented as a gift to the Queen.

Births

• 16 March - Bengt Lidner, poet (died 1793)
• 29 March - Carl Axel Arrhenius, chemist (died 1824)
• 30 March - Sophie Piper, courtier (died 1816)
• 31 March - Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, royal favorite (died 1814)
• 14 July - Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand, minister and general (died 1834)
• 27 September – Henric Schartau, pietist (died 1825)
• 10 October - Erik Acharius, botanist (died 1819)
• Christina Fris, industrialist (died 1835)

Deaths

• Erland Broman, royal favorite (born 1704)
• Rika Maja, Sami shaman (born 1661)

References