1758 in Sweden

Events from the year 1758 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Adolf Frederick

Events

• 28 September - Battle of Fehrbellin (1758)
• 14 October - First issue of Norrköpings Tidningar.
• 26 September – Battle of Tornow, a Swedish-Prussian engagement during the ongoing Pomeranian War.

Births

• 12 February - Claës Fredrik Hornstedt, naturalist (died 1809)
• 30 August - Jonas Carl Linnerhielm, State Herald of Sweden, artist and writer (died 129)
• 3 December – Marie Louise Marcadet, opera singer and actress (died 1804)
• 31 December - Sophie Hagman, ballerina and royal mistress (died 1826)

Deaths

• 29 April - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Lieutenant General and war hero (born 1720)
• 20 May – Henric Benzelius, clergyman (born 1689)
• 26 October - Johan Helmich Roman, musician (born 1694)
• - Katarina Asplund, religious figure (born 1690)
• - Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, royal favorite (born 1722)

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