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1747 In Sweden
Events from the year 1747 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * May - Alliance between Sweden and France; Sweden is to receive subsidies. * May - Defense alliance between Sweden and Prussia. * 5 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin President of the Riksdag. * - The government of the Hats (party) has the physician of the monarch, A. Blackwell, executed for treason. * - Pehr Kalm travel to North America. * The '' Vadstena adliga jungfrustift'' begin its activity.Oscar Fredrik Strokirk: Kultur- och personhistoriska anteckningar / Första delen Births * 26 March - Elis Schröderheim, politician (died 1795) * - Adolf Ludvig Hamilton, politician, memoir writer (died 1802) * 24 February - Ulla von Liewen, royal lover (died 1775) * - Maria Aurora Uggla, royal favorite (died 1826) * - Margareta Seuerling, actress (died 1820) * 25 July - Johanna Lohm, educator (died 1834) * Carl Johan Ingman, spy (died 1813) Deaths * 19 June – Jakob Benzelius, archbishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1747
Events January–March * January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. * February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers, attacks and defeats British troops at Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. * March 7 – Juan de Arechederra the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines, combines his forces with those of Sultan Azim ud-Din I of Sulu to suppress the rebellion of the Moros in the Visayas. * March 19 – Simon Fraser, the 79-year old Scottish Lord Loyat, is convicted of high treason for being one of the leaders of the Jacobite rising of 1745 against King George II of Great Britain and attempting to place the pretender Charles Edward Stuart on the throne. After a seven day trial of impeachment in the House of Lords and the verdict of guilt, Fraser is sentenced on the same day to be hanged, drawn and quartered; King George alters Fraser's p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
