1765 in Sweden

Events from the year 1765 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Adolf Frederick

Events

• - Sweden forms an alliance with Russia and Denmark-Norway.
• October - A new government is formed by the Caps (party) with support from bribes from the Russian Empire and England, with the French spending more than two and a half million Swedish crowns to uphold the status quo held by the Hats. It was the first Caps government since 1738.
• - The Anna Ekelöf case.

Births

• - Julie Eckerman, courtesan and spy (died 1800)
• - Sofia Liljegren, opera singer (died 1795)
• 10 January - Adolph Ribbing, count and politician. He participated in the regicide of Gustav III of Sweden in 1792 (died 1843)
• 10 June - Metta Fock, convicted murderer (died 1810)

Deaths

• 1 August - Ulla Adlerfelt, painter (born 1736)
• - Samuel Klingenstierna, mathematician and scientist (born 1698)

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