1768 in Sweden

Events from the year 1768 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Adolf Frederick

Events

• 12 December – The King lays down the government, which creates the December Crisis (1768), that cause the parliament to call the Riksdag of the Estates.
• 18 December – The monarch resume the government.
• - The ecstatic religious movement of Karin Olofsdotter begins.
• - Publishing of the book "Architecture Navalis Mercatoria" by Fredrik Henrik af Chapman.

Births

• - Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm, painter (died 1845)

Deaths

• 14 December - Ulla Tessin, courtier (born 1711)

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