1799 in Sweden

Events from the year 1799 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf

Events

• - Coffee is banned: due to the opposition, this unpopular law is abolished again in 1802.
• - Maximum seu archimetria by Thomas Thorild
• 14 December – The office of Lord High Chancellor of Sweden is abolished for the final time.

Births

• 13 March - Maria Dorothea Dunckel, playwright (died 1878)
• 22 March – Fredrik Vilhelm August Argelander
• 24 March - Nils Almlöf, actor (died 1875)
• 31 October - Maria Fredrica von Stedingk, composer (died 1868)
• 9 November - Gustav, Prince of Vasa, prince (died 1877)
• 11 December - Charlotte Thitz, educator (died 1889)
• Helena Larsdotter Westerlund, educator (died 1865)

Deaths

• 2 February - Dorothea Maria Lösch, war heroine (born 1730)
• 11 March - Anna Lisa Jermen, entrepreneur (born 1770)
• 25 May - Barbara Ekenberg, entrepreneur (born 1717)
• Anna Elisabeth Baer, ship owner (born 1722)
• Anna Maria Brandel, industrialist (born 1725)

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