1785 in Sweden

Events from the year 1785 in Sweden

Incumbents

Monarch Ã¢ÂÂ Gustav III

Events

- Enskiftet begins in Scania.
- The Barber of Seville is played for the first time in Sweden at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm, with Christina Rahm and Kjell Waltman.
- ' by Johan Fredric Bagge

- Passionerna by Thomas Thorild

Births

23 January Ã¢ÂÂ Carl Adolph Agardh, botanist (died 1859)

February - Anna SundstrÃÂ¶m, chemist (died 1871)

6 May Ã¢ÂÂ Arvid August Afzelius, historian and mythologist (died 1871)

5 October Ã¢ÂÂ Lasse-Maja, notorious criminal (died 1845)

Ã¢ÂÂ Mariana Koskull, royal mistress (died 1841)

Deaths

30 October Ã¢ÂÂ Gustaf Filip Creutz, diplomat and poet (born 1731)

16 November Ã¢ÂÂ Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, chemist and mineralogist (born 1709)

- Lovisa von Plat, brothel madam (unknown birthyear)

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