1762 in Sweden

Events from the year 1762 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Adolf Frederick

Events

• 22 May - Treaty of Hamburg (1762). Peace between Sweden and Prussia with the mediation of the Queen of Sweden, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. This was the end of the Seven Years War.
• 25 August – The first Drottningholm Palace Theatre burns down.
• The Hats lose political power in Sweden due to admitting defeat in the Seven Years War
• Elisabeth Christina von Linné publishes her discovery of the Tropaeolum majus.
• Menniskans elände, by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg

Births

• 7 October - Fabian von Fersen (1762–1818), official and courtier (died 1818)
• - Christina Fredenheim, vocalist (died 1841)

Deaths

• - Charles Langlois, actor and theater director (died 1692)

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