1783 in Sweden

Events from the year 1783 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav III

Events

• - Creation of the Walhalla-orden
• - Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–Sweden)
• June - Gustav III has plans to conquer the Danish province of Norway, and meet with Catherine the Great in Finland in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade her to end the Russian-Danish alliance.
• - Norrköping jungfrustift is founded.
• 27 September - Gustav III begun his trip to Italy and France.
• - Bacchi Tempel, by Carl Michael Bellman
• - Giovanna Bassi is engaged at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Births

• 12 January - Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer (died 1847)
• 3 September - Sophie Karsten, ballerina (died 1862)
• 22 October - Maria Johanna Görtz, artist (died 1853)
• 18 December - Johan Niclas Byström, sculptor (died 1848)

Deaths

• Brita Ryy, educator (born 1725)
• 26 May – Anna Maria Hilfeling, miniaturist (born 1713)
• date unknown - Maria Katarina Öhrn, opera singer and actress (born 1756)
• 1 November - Carl Linnaeus the Younger, naturalist (born 1741)
• Helena Escholin, vicar's wife (born 1713)
• Françoise-Éléonore Villain, actor (born 1761)

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