1793 in Sweden

Events from the year 1793 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf

Events

• 7 January - Ebel riots in Stockholm.
• 9 March - Riot among students in Scania.
• May - Reuterholm completes a defense treaty with revolutionary France.
• 18 December - Magdalena Rudenschöld is the first to be arrested when the Armfelt Conspiracy of the Gustavian Party against the guardian government is exposed.
• - The Royal Dramatic Theatre changes localities from the Bollhuset to Makalös in Stockholm, and the Bollhuset building is torn down.
• - The Royal Dramatic Training Academy is regulated and given its organization by Anne Marie Milan Desguillons and Joseph Sauze Desguillons.

Births

• 27 February - Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer and actress (died 1861)
• 20 August - Ulrika Sofia De Geer, salonnière (died 1869)
• 14 October - Erik Johan Stagnelius, romantic poet (died 1823)
• 28 November - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, romantic poet, early feminist, realist, composer, social critic and traveller (died 1866)
• 2 September - Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer (died 1878)

Deaths

• 4 January - Bengt Lidner, poet (born 1757)
• 2 March – Carl Gustaf Pilo, painter (born 1711)
• 15 May - Peter Adolf Hall, painter (born 1739)
• 19 May – Jean Eric Rehn
• 5 July - Alexander Roslin, painter (born 1718)
• 10 August - Daniel Rolander, biologist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (born 1722)
• Maria Carowsky, painter (born 1723)
• Ingrid Maria Wenner, courtier (born 1731)

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