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1740 In Sweden
Events from the year 1740 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * * * * - Foundation of the retirement fund '' Allmänna Änke- och Pupillkassan i Sverige'' for the destitute widows of civil servants, undermining widow conservation.Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 22. Possession – Retzia * - The Christina Johansdotter case. * - The Hats (party) campaign for a war against the Empire of Russia with French support. * - An unsuccessful attempt is made to exile the King's mistress Hedvig Taube from the country. * December – '' Sagan om hästen'' by Olof von Dalin Births * 4 February – Carl Michael Bellman, poet, songwriter, composer and performer (died 1795) * * * 7 September - Johan Tobias Sergel, neoclassical sculptor (died 1814) * 8 December – Elisabeth Olin, opera singer and a music composer (died 1828) * 16 December - Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, politician (died 1819) Deaths * 30 January – Amalia Königsmarck, dilettante artist (pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Olin
Elisabeth Olin née ''Lillström'' (December 1740 – 26 March 1828) was a Swedish opera singer and a music composer. She performed the leading female role in the inauguration performance of the Royal Swedish Opera in 1773, and is referred to as the first Swedish opera prima donna. She was the first female to be made '' Hovsångerska'' (1773), and the first woman to become a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (1782). Life Elisabeth Olin was the daughter of the musician Petter Lillström and the actress and singer Elisabeth Lillström. Her parents were both engaged at the opera theater of Bollhuset, Sweden's first professional national stage, where her father was an organist in the theater orchestra, and her mother was one of the first professional actresses in Sweden, the prima donna of the theater and a member of the theater's board of directors. Early career Elisabeth Olin, then called Betty Lillström, debuted at the age of seven at Bollhuset in 1747 the part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1740 In Sweden
Events from the year 1740 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * * * * - Foundation of the retirement fund '' Allmänna Änke- och Pupillkassan i Sverige'' for the destitute widows of civil servants, undermining widow conservation.Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 22. Possession – Retzia * - The Christina Johansdotter case. * - The Hats (party) campaign for a war against the Empire of Russia with French support. * - An unsuccessful attempt is made to exile the King's mistress Hedvig Taube from the country. * December – '' Sagan om hästen'' by Olof von Dalin Births * 4 February – Carl Michael Bellman, poet, songwriter, composer and performer (died 1795) * * * 7 September - Johan Tobias Sergel, neoclassical sculptor (died 1814) * 8 December – Elisabeth Olin, opera singer and a music composer (died 1828) * 16 December - Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, politician (died 1819) Deaths * 30 January – Amalia Königsmarck, dilettante artist (pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1689 In Sweden
Events from the year 1689 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Events * - The Riksdag of the Estates grant the monarch the right to taxation during war. * - Opposition from the Riksdag to the monarch is deemed Lèse-majesté. * - ''Helicons Blomster'' by Lasse Lucidor. * - Husqvarna Group if founded. * - Alliance between Sweden and Lüneburg toward Denmark. * * Births * - Lars Gathenhielm, pirate and royal privateer (died 1718) * unknown - Margareta Gyllenstierna, politically active countess (died 1740) * * * Deaths * 24 February - Elsa Elisabeth Brahe, duchess (born 1632) * - Christina, Queen of Sweden, former monarch (born 1626) * - Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, duke (born 1629 Events January–March * January 7– Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate, the 15-year-old son of the German Palatinate elector, Frederick V, drowns in an accident while sailing to Amsterdam. * January 19&nd ...) Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margareta Gyllenstierna
Margareta Gyllenstierna af Fogelvik (c. 1689 - 26 January 1740), was a politically active Swedish countess, married to Arvid Horn, the President of the Privy Council Chancellery (1710–1719 and 1720–1738) and one of the leading figures of the Swedish Age of Liberty. Life Margareta Gyllenstierna was the 6th of 10 children of count Nils Karlsson Gyllenstierna (1648-1720) and Anna Christina Gyllenstierna af Björksund (1657-1715): her year of birth is not stated, but it is likely 1689, as she was born in between her sisters Sidonia (1688-1701) and Charlotta (1690-1695). Being the only child so survive to adulthood, she was the heir of great estates in Småland and Östergötland. She married Horn in his third marriage in 1710. She had five children, two sons and three daughters. During the 1720s and 1730s, Margareta Gyllenstierna and Arvid Horn played a similar role as Magdalena Stenbock and Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna in the 1680s and 1690s, and Christina Piper and Carl Pipe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1660 In Sweden
Events from the year 1660 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch - Charles X Gustav then Charles XI Events * 13 February - Charles XI of Sweden succeed Charles X of Sweden under a regency headed by his mother Queen Dowager Hedvig Eleonora.Lundh-Eriksson, Nanna (1947). Hedvig Eleonora (in Swedish). Wahlström & Widstrand. * 27 May - Treaty of Copenhagen (1660) * Former Queen Christina visit Sweden and unsuccessfully claims the throne. Births * 5 March - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, explorer, scientist (died 1740) * Simon Affleck, tax official born in Estonia. * Hedvig Eleonora Klingenstierna, first woman to hold a lecture at a Swedish university. Deaths References External links Years of the 17th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olof Rudbeck The Younger
Olof Rudbeck the Younger or Olaus Rudbeckius d.y. (15 March 1660 – 23 March 1740) was a Swedish explorer, scientist, botanist, ornithologist and rector of Uppsala University. Biography Olof Rudbeck was born in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Olaus Rudbeck Sr. (1630–1702), a professor of medicine at Uppsala University. He travelled to England, Holland and Germany in 1687 to study botany. Rudbeck took a medical degree at the Utrecht University in 1690. Returning to his home country in 1692, he succeeded his father as professor of medicine at Uppsala University. Serving alongside Lars Roberg (1664–1742), he specialized in anatomy, botany, zoology, and pharmacology, while Roberg gave lectures in medicine, surgery, physiology and chemistry. He travelled to Lapland in 1695, joining an expedition commissioned by the King Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697), for which his mission was to study nature, the mountainous region in particular. He returned and published ''Lapponia illustrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1663 In Sweden
Events from the year 1663 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Events * The Swedish Collegium medicum is founded to supervise the medical professions. * The pirate Gustav Skytte is exposed, trialed and executed."Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor". Project Runeberg website (in Swedish). Retrieved 2009-07-21. * * * * Births * August - Amalia Königsmarck, painter, actress and poet (died 1740) * unknown - Gävle Boy, notorious witch finder (died 1676) * 16 April - Maria Elizabeth of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, princess (died 1748) Deaths * 8 March - Hans Christoff von Königsmarck, soldier (born 1600) * Johan Björnsson Printz, governor (born 1592) * Gustav Skytte, pirate (born 1637) * * References Years of the 17th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalia Königsmarck
Amalia may refer to: People *Amalia (given name), feminine given name (includes a list of people so named) *Princess Amalia (other), several princesses with this name Films and television series * ''Amalia'' (1914 film), the first full-length Argentine film * ''Amalia'' (1936 film), an Argentine remake of the 1914 movie * ''Amália'' (film), a 2008 Portuguese film biography of singer Amália Rodrigues * ''Amalia'' (TV series), a South African television series *Amalia Sheran Sharm, one of the main protagonists in Wakfu (TV series) Places *Amalia, New Mexico, US *Amalia, North West, South Africa Other uses * ''Amalia'' (novel), an Argentine novel written by José Mármol *Amalia (Schubert), D 195, Op. 173 No. 1, song by Franz Schubert, based on a text by Schiller *Amalia (steamship), a general cargo steamship built by J&G Thomson for the Papayanni Brothers in 1861 *284 Amalia, a large main belt asteroid *''Laelia'', a genus of orchids, formerly called AMALIA) See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1819 In Sweden
Events from the year 1819 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Charles XIV John Events * 7 October - Södertälje Canal * - The charitable society ''Välgörande fruntimmerssällskapet'' is founded.Nordisk familjebok / 1800-talsutgåvan. 17. V - Väring It is the first organization in Sweden founded and managed by women. * - Öland County created. * - Independent Order of Odd Fellows Sweden * - Swedish Museum of Natural History Births * 19 January - Stor-Stina, Sami (died 1854 in Sweden, 1854) * 21 February – Emilia Uggla, pianist (died 1855 in Sweden, 1855) * 14 March - Erik Edlund, physicist (died 1888 in Sweden, 1888) * 25 March - Theodore Hamberg, missionary and author (died 1854 in Sweden, 1854) * 4 July – Marie Sophie Schwartz, writer (died 1894 in Sweden, 1894) * 12 July – Wilhelmina Fundin, operatic soprano (died 1911 in Sweden, 1911) * Ebba d'Aubert, pianist (died 1860 in Sweden, 1860) * Sophia Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
