1792 in Sweden

Events from the year 1792 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav III then Gustav IV Adolf

Events

• January - King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Gävle.
• February - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved.
• 16 March - Assassination of Gustav III: Gustav III of Sweden is assassinated by Jakob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.
• 29 March - Gustav III dies and is succeeded by his minor son, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, under the guardianship of his uncle, Duke Charles.
• The Funeral of Gustav III
• 27 April – Jakob Johan Anckarström is executed for regicide in Stockholm.
• July - Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm becomes a member of the guardian government and the de facto regent of Sweden.
• 20 December – The Marriage of Figaro is given for the first time in Sweden at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm with Didrik Gabriel Björn and Eleonora Säfström.
• The French Theater of Gustav III is dissolved.
• Om det allmänna förstÃ¥ndets frihet by Thomas Thorild.
• Thomas Thorild is exiled for revolutionary ideas.
• Foundation of the Nationalmuseum.
• Foundation of the school of Johanna Lohm.

Births

• 12 January – Johan August Arfwedson, chemist

• 23 March – Carl Georg Brunius, art historian, archaeologist and architect (died 1869)
• 16 April – Ulla Stenberg, artist (died 1858)
• 24 July – Hedda Wrangel, composer (died 1833)
• 28 August – Karolina Bock, actress (died 1872)
• 18 September – Johan Fredrik Ernst von Vegesack, military officer
• Date unknown – Halta-Kajsa, tradition bearer (died 1857)

Deaths

• 29 March – Gustav III of Sweden, monarch (born 1746)
• 27 April – Jacob Johan Anckarström, military officer and assassin of Gustav III
• 8 November – Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen, courtier (born 1753)
• 15 December – Joseph Martin Kraus, composer (born 1756)

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