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1710 In Sweden
Events from the year 1710 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XII Events * February - Battle of Helsingborg * * * * * * - Arvid Horn appointed Privy Council Chancellery. * - Vyborg is taken by the Russians. * July - The Great Northern War plague outbreak reach Stockholm. * 15 July – 10 October - Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia * August–September - The Great Northern War plague outbreak spread from the capital to the Swedish country. * - Riga is taken by the Russians. * 24 September - Battle of Køge Bay (1710) * - Reval is taken by the Russians. * - Scania is taken by the Danes. * - Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala * - Lars Gathenhielm is given royal permission to act as a privateer in the Baltic Sea. Births * * * * * * * * * Ulrica Catharina Stromberg, courtier (died 1777) Deaths * * * * 3 November - Maria de Croll, concert vocalist (born unknown date) * Anna Maria Thelott, artist (born 1683) * Dorothea Hoffman, hat maker * Helena Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dannebroge Caught On Fire
The ''Dannebroge'' was a Denmark–Norway, Dano-Norwegian ship-of-the-line that exploded and sank on Battle of Køge Bay (1710), 4 October 1710, during the Great Northern War. Almost all of its crew of 600 were killed - one third of the victims were Norwegians. Admiral Iver Huitfeldt was among the casualties. Construction ''Dannebroge'' was built in 1692 and she was the largest ship-of-the-line in the Dano-Norwegian navy at that time with her 84 cannons placed on two decks and a crew of 600 men. She was also the first ship in Denmark that was built according to a plan drawing. Career The final battle In 1710 Denmark–Norway was at war with Sweden. The Norwegian-born commander, Ivar Huitfeldt, was in charge of ''Dannebroge'' on October 4, 1710. Along with a Dano-Norwegian fleet of 44 other ships he had set sail for Liepāja (in modern Latvia). The mission was to escort 6,000 Russian troops to the Danish capital of Copenhagen, so they could support Denmark–Norway during the Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scania
Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne County, created in 1997. Like the other former provinces of Sweden, Scania still features in colloquial speech and in cultural references, and can therefore not be regarded as an archaic concept. Within Scania there are 33 municipalities of Sweden, municipalities that are autonomous within the Skåne Regional Council. Scania's largest urban areas of Sweden, city, Malmö, is the third-largest city in Sweden, as well as the fifth-largest in Scandinavia. To the north, Scania borders the former provinces of Halland and Småland, to the northeast Blekinge, to the east and south the Baltic Sea, and to the west Öresund. Since 2000, a road and railway bridge, the Öresund Bridge, bridges the Öresund, Sound and connects Scania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1710 In Sweden
Events from the year 1710 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XII Events * February - Battle of Helsingborg * * * * * * - Arvid Horn appointed Privy Council Chancellery. * - Vyborg is taken by the Russians. * July - The Great Northern War plague outbreak reach Stockholm. * 15 July – 10 October - Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia * August–September - The Great Northern War plague outbreak spread from the capital to the Swedish country. * - Riga is taken by the Russians. * 24 September - Battle of Køge Bay (1710) * - Reval is taken by the Russians. * - Scania is taken by the Danes. * - Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala * - Lars Gathenhielm is given royal permission to act as a privateer in the Baltic Sea. Births * * * * * * * * * Ulrica Catharina Stromberg, courtier (died 1777) Deaths * * * * 3 November - Maria de Croll, concert vocalist (born unknown date) * Anna Maria Thelott, artist (born 1683) * Dorothea Hoffman, hat maker * Helena Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Lindelia
Helena Lindelia (died 1710) was a Swedish textile artist.Alm, Göran (red.), Signums svenska konsthistoria. d 6 Barockens konst, Signum, Lund, 1997 She was the daughter and sister of a tailor, and active in Eksjö in Småland from 1682. After having become a widow, she supported herself by embroidering clerical textiles such as chasubles. Her work illustrates the religious beliefs of her contemporaries, but uses technique inspired from the Middle Ages. She is one of few professional woman textile artists known from Sweden in the 17th century. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindelia 1710 deaths 17th-century Swedish women 17th-century Swedish artists 18th-century Swedish women 18th-century Swedish artists 17th-century women textile artists 17th-century textile artists 18th-century women textile artists 18th-century textile artists Swedish textile artists Swedish women artists People from Eksjö Municipality Swedish embroiderers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Hoffman
Dorothea Hoffman (died 1710), was Swedish milliner and hatmaker. She was the daughter of the Elder (administrative title) Fischer of the hatmaker's guild in Norrköping. She married the hatmaker Mårten Hoffman (d. 1702) in Stockholm, with whom she had ten children. Dorothea Hoffman conducted her own business independently from her spouse, despite the fact that she as a married woman who was formally under the guardianship of her husband. As with other married businesswomen, her activity is not very visible in the documents, but she was sued in 1678 by the hatmaker's guild in Köping for having imported 92 of her own hats to Köping for sale. When she was widowed in 1702, she was formally noted as a businesswoman of her own business as well as inheriting the hatmaker's guild privilege and workshop of her late spouse. Hoffman was the most successful hatmaker in Stockholm: she is listed with a larger staff and more journeyman's than any other of her profession in the capital, and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1683 In Sweden
Events from the year 1683 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Charles XI or Carl ( sv, Karl XI; ) was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death, in a period of Swedish history known as the Swedish Empire (1611–1721). He was the only son of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein- ... Events * ' by Maria Simointytär, first published poem by a female in the province of Finland Births * 25 February - Jakob Benzelius, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden (died 1747 in Sweden , 1747) * October - Charlotta von Liewen, politically active countess (died 1735 in Sweden , 1735) * Date unknown - Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar, famous cross dressing soldier (died 1733 in Sweden , 1733) * Date unknown - Anna Maria Thelott, engraver and woodcut-artist (died 1710) Deaths * 16 November - Margareta Huitfeldt, landowner and donor (born 1608 in Norway , 1608) * Bengt Skytte, courtier and diplomat (born 1614 in Sweden , 1614) * Birgitta Durel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Maria Thelott
Anna Maria Thelott (1683–1710) was a Swedish artist. She was an engraver, an illustrator, a woodcut-artist, and a miniaturist painter. Biography Anna Maria Thelott was born in Uppsala, Sweden. She was the daughter of engraver and watchmaker Philip Jacob Thelott the Elder (1635-1710), She was the sister of academic Philip Jacob Thelott the Younger (1682-1750) and half-sister of the engraver Olof Thelott (ca 1670-1728). Her parents had emigrated from Switzerland to Uppsala in the 1670s. She and her brothers were educated by her father in his trade, and active as the assistants in his studio as children. They were all assigned to assist him when he was commissioned by Olof Rudbeck (1630-1702) to illustrate his four volumes work ''Atlantica'' (''Atland eller Manheim'') and ''Campus Elysii''. She also accepted individual commissions early own to contribute to the support of the family. She performed commissions of illustrations by method of drawing, chalcography, cop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria De Croll
Maria de Croll, née Swart (died 3 November 1710) was a Swedish vocalist. She was singer of the first rank at Hovkapellet 1702-1710. Maria de Croll was married to Reinhold de Croll, organist at the Hovkapellet. She was the first female employed at the Hovkapellet. However, she was not officially counted as the first woman there, as the royal orchestra were formally banned for female members until 26 October 1726, when Sophia Schröder Sophia Schröder (Stockholm, 1712 – 29 January 1750) was a Swedish people, Swedish soprano, active as a concert vocalist at the royal orchestra, the ''Kungliga Hovkapellet'', at the royal Swedish court, the first of her gender to have been offic ... and Judith Fisher became the first women formally employed at Hovkapellet after it was officially opened for women. Maria de Croll was also one of two females employed at the Hovkapellet during the ban of females, the other one being the vocalist Anna Maria Ristell in 1714-1716. In 1710, she became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1777 In Sweden
Events from the year 1777 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * 7 June - Gustav III visit Catherine the Great in Russia. * - The construction of the Strömsholm Canal begins. * - The 1711 regulations of midwives, with demands of a license after approval of the medical authorities, until then in practice only enforced in the capital, are enforced in the entire country.Pia Höjeberg (2011). Jordemor. Barnmorska och barnaföderska. Barnafödandets historia i Sverige. Stockholm: Carlssons Bokförlag. Births * 15 June - Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (died 1867) * - Hedvig Amalia Charlotta Klinckowström, miniaturist (died 1810) * - Per Krafft the Younger, painter (died 1863) * - Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar, folk singer (died 1846) * Louise von Fersen, courtier (died 1849) * Eva Fundin, actress and dancer (died 1800) Deaths * 6 April - Jacob Johan Anckarström the Elder, knight and colonel (died 1729) * 17 November - Johan Stålbom, painter (died 1712) * Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrica Catharina Stromberg
Ulrica Catharina Stromberg (1710-1777) was a Swedish courtier; ''överhovmästarinna'' (Mistress of the Robes) to the queen of Sweden, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, from 1754 to 1761. Born to count Carl Julius Lewenhaupt and Christina Gustaviana Horn af Marienborg, she married ''riksråd'' count Claës Stromberg in 1732. The couple had one daughter. Stromberg served as ''hovfröken'' (maid of honour) to queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden prior to her marriage, from 1726 until 1732. In 1754, when Carl Gustaf Tessin and Ulla Tessin lost their court offices as royal governor and mistress of the robes respectively, Claës Stromberg and Ulrica Catharina Stromberg replaced them in these offices.Riksrådet och Fättmarskalken m.m. Grefve Fredrik Axel von Fersens ..., Volym 2, Fredrik Axel von Fersen She served as mistress of the robes to queen Louisa Ulrika for seven years until 1761, when she retired in favor of Ulrika Juliana Gyllenstierna. Five years later, in 1766, Stromberg was appointed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Gathenhielm
Lars Gathenhielm (originally Lars Andersson Gathe; 1689–1718) was a Swedish sea captain, commander, shipowner merchant, and privateer. Biography Lars Gathenhielm was born on the Gatan estate in Onsala Parish in Halland. His parents were the sea captain Anders Börjesson Gathe and his wife Kerstin Larsdtr Styrman, daughter of a mill owner in Hjälm, Fjärås Parish. Before his knighthood in 1715, he was known as Lars Andersson Gathe or Lasse i Gatan. To protect Swedish shipping from pirates and to harm the enemy, in June 1710 the government of King Charles XII of Sweden gave Lars Gathe Letter of marque granting permission to seize ships from enemy nations including Denmark and Russia. His vessels captured foreign merchant vessels and forced them into port where both cargo and ships were sold. The spoils were also sold at Dunkerque in northern France. He had a great deal of early success with his galleon ''Lilla Jägaren'', and as the volume of hijackings increased, many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Of Sciences In Uppsala
The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten i Uppsala), is the oldest of the royal academies in Sweden, having been founded in 1710. The society has, by royal decree of 1906, 50 Swedish fellows and 100 foreign. Early members included Emanuel Swedenborg and Anders Celsius. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in Stockholm 1739. Its founders, some of whom were members of the Uppsala academy, specifically wanted a different academy. Historical sketch The academy was founded 1710 in Uppsala on the initiative of the university librarian Erik Benzelius (jr) (later archbishop) under the name of ''Collegium curiosorum''. The name was changed to ''Societas Literaria Sueciae'' in 1719, when it received a royal charter in 1728 to ''Societas regia literaria et scientarium'', and it was known from the mid 18th century as the ''Societas regia scientarum upsaliensis''. All the academy's publications were in the Latin language until 1863. Struct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
