1802 in Sweden

Events from the year 1802 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf

Events

• 10 July - The British occupation of the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy discontinues.
• - Tantalum discovered by Anders Gustaf Ekeberg.
• - The foundation of the Yellow Rose (society).
• - The Cause célèbre of Metta Fock.

Births

• 25 March - Maria Silfvan, actress (died 1865)
• - Emma Fürstenhoff, florist (died 1871)
• Anna Charlotta von Sydow (died 1865)

Deaths

• 9 October - Ebba Morman, actress (born 1769)
• - Adolf Ludvig Hamilton, politician, memoir writer (born 1747)

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