1759 in Sweden

Events from the year 1759 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Adolf Frederick

Events

• 10 September - Battle of Frisches Haff
• 19 July - The Great Stockholm Fire 1759 reduced about 20 blocks with about 300 houses to ash, and rendered about 2000 persons homeless.
• - The Royal Swedish Society of Sciences and Letters is founded.
• - Vinterkväde by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg

Births

• 1 March - Carl Pontus Gahn, Swedish military officer (died 1825)
• 2 March - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer (died 1833)
• 23 March - Anders Ljungstedt, historian (died 1835)
• 18 April – Thomas Thorild, poet, critic and philosopher (died 1808)
• 16 August – Carl Fredric von Breda, painter (died 1818)
• – Anna Sophia Holmstedt, ballerina (died 1807)
• - Charlotte Eckerman, opera singer and courtesan (died 1790)
• Johan Anton Lindqvist, theatre director (died 1833)

Deaths

• 20 June – Margareta Capsia, painter (born 1682)

References