1786 in Sweden

Events from the year 1786 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav III

Events

• 5 April - The Royal Swedish Academy is founded.
• 1 May – King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Stockholm.
• 23 June - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved.
• 23 October - Charter rights are given to Östersund.
• Date unknown- The first school to give higher education to female students, the Societetsskolan, is founded in Gothenburg.
• Date unknown - Foundation of the Swedish West India Company
• Date unknown - Maria Christina Bruhn becomes the first woman to be given a patent as an inventor in Sweden.
• Date unknown - The first hot air balloons are released in Sweden by the popular acrobat Antonio Bartolomeo Spinacuta.

Births

• 19 January – Carl Gustaf Kröningssvärd, lawyer and historian (died 1859)
• 13 May - Anna Ehrenström, poet (died 1857)
• 8 August - Bengt Erland Fogelberg, sculptor (died 1854)
• 18 September – Leonhard Fredrik Rääf, folklorist, local historian and conservative politician (died 1872)
• Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm, dramatist and translator (died 1828)

Deaths

• 18 March – Gustaf Lundberg, painter (born 1695)
• 11 May - Anna Sofia Ramström, courtier (born 1738)
• 15 May - Eva Ekeblad, scientist (born 1724)
• 21 May – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, pharmaceutical chemist (born 1745)
• 22 May – Carl Fredrik Mennander, bishop (born 1712)

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