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1749 In Sweden
Events from the year 1749 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * - Treaty between Sweden and Denmark. * - Statistics Sweden * * - Carl Linnaeus conduct his trip to Scania. * - Street lights are introduced in the capital when every house owner are obliged to place a light of some kind upon their house to light up the street. In practice, however, this instruction is insufficient. * - The Agricultural revolution, the Great Partition, in which farmers are given united land in individual farms rather than having their land spread in several fields around a village, is initiated in Sweden by Jacob Faggot. * - A new regulation is issued were the permits of street trade ( Månglare), at the time already one of the most common for destitute city women, is henceforth to be given foremost in favor of women in need of supporting themselves."Spanska citroner till salu", ur Historisk Tidskrift 134:1, 2014 Births * * 2 January - Carl Gustaf Nordin, historian and ecc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrika Eleonora Von Fersen
Ulrica, also spelled Ulrika, is a female given name of Germanic origins. Its male equivalent is Ulric, Ulrich or Ulrik. Ulrike and Ulrikke are alternative names derived from Ulrica. Ulrica may refer to: People * Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1688–1741) * Ulrica Elisabeth von Liewen (1747–1775), rumored parent (along with King Adolf Frederick of Sweden) of Lolotte Forssberg * Ulrika Åberg (1771–1852), Swedish ballerina * Ulrica Arfvidsson (1734–1801), Swedish fortune teller * Ulrika Björn (born 1973), Swedish footballer * Ulrika Ericsson, ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for November 1996 * Ulrika von Fersen (1749–1810), Swedish socialite, a known figure of the Gustavian age, the inspiration of a poem * Ulrika Jonsson (born 1967), Swedish personality on British television * Ulrika Knape (born 1955), Swedish diver * Ulrika Melin (1767–1834), Swedish artist * Ulrika Pasch (1735–1796), Swedish painter * Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar (1688–1733), Swedish sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1831 In Sweden
Events from the year 1831 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * 22 August - The premier of ''Nornan'' by Julia Nyberg at the Royal Swedish Opera i Stockholm.Dramawebben”. Läst 24 mars 2011. * - Inauguration of Wallinska skolan in Stockholm. * - ''Lunds Studentsångförening'' is created * - First issue of ''Vestmanlands Läns Tidning'' Births * 16 March – Elise Hwasser, actress (died 1894) * 28 August - Ludvig Norman, composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher (died 1885) * 14 November - Betty Deland, actress (died 1882) Deaths * 18 July – Adolf Fredrik Munck, royal favorite (born 1749) * Charlotta Richardy, industrialist (born 1751 In Britain and its colonies (except Scotland), 1751 only had 282 days due to the British Calendar Act of 1751, which ended the year on 31 December (rather than nearly three months later according to its previous rule). Events January&nd ...) References Years of the 19th century in Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1749 In Sweden
Events from the year 1749 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * - Treaty between Sweden and Denmark. * - Statistics Sweden * * - Carl Linnaeus conduct his trip to Scania. * - Street lights are introduced in the capital when every house owner are obliged to place a light of some kind upon their house to light up the street. In practice, however, this instruction is insufficient. * - The Agricultural revolution, the Great Partition, in which farmers are given united land in individual farms rather than having their land spread in several fields around a village, is initiated in Sweden by Jacob Faggot. * - A new regulation is issued were the permits of street trade ( Månglare), at the time already one of the most common for destitute city women, is henceforth to be given foremost in favor of women in need of supporting themselves."Spanska citroner till salu", ur Historisk Tidskrift 134:1, 2014 Births * * 2 January - Carl Gustaf Nordin, historian and ecc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1665 In Sweden
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Events from the year 1665 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Events * * * * * * Births * 4 March - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, soldier (died 1694) * Ingeborg i Mjärhult, natural healer, medicine woman, herbalist, natural philosopher, soothsayer and spiritual visionary (died 1749) * Magnus Stenbock, officer (died 1717) * Catharina Bröms, ironmaster (died 1735) * Jonas Lambert-Wenman, pirate (died 1732) Deaths * * * * * 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./ref> is a Nordic country located on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg I Mjärhult
Ingeborg i Mjärhult ('Ingeborg of Mjärhult') (1665 – 23 July 1749) was a Swedish natural healer, natural philosopher, soothsayer and spiritual visionary. Life Ingeborg i Mjärhult belonged to the peasantry of the parish of Virestad in Kronoberg County in Småland. She was born to the farmer Daniel i Uthövdan, and married the farmer Måns Gudmundsson i Mjärhult (d. 1716), with whom she had four children. By marriage, she was customarily called "i Mjärhult", which referred to the farm of her spouse. Early on, she became active as a natural folk healer. By the time she became a widow in 1716, she had achieved national fame. Her medical activity included a type of religious natural philosophy, which she also shared with the public. Reportedly, she adjusted herself to follow all the church duties the law demanded and was in fact described as quite devout. She was on several occasions questioned by the church and the authorities for superstition, but she always defended herself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1664 In Sweden
Events from the year 1664 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Events * Carl Gustaf Wrangel appointed Lord High Constable of Sweden. * Publication of Gautreks saga. * A new sumptuary law, replaced and amended the previous one of 1644, restrict the guests at engagement dinners to family and bans the custom of conducting them in bath houses; weddings are no longer to be celebrated for more than one day; the guests at weddings are restricted; dress fashion are regulated according to class and only the nobility, the clergy and the highest circles of the burgher class are allowed valuable textiles (in the latter cases in more discreet colors), and then only within the restrictions of customary dress, as the habit of adjusting to fashion had become more and more common, which worried the authorities who wished to have a permanent dress fashion for each class: this law is however not respected.Svenska folkets underbara öden / IV. Karl XI:s och Karl XII:s tid * Births * 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan August Meijerfeldt
Johan August Meijerfeldt (1664–1749) was a Swedish general and civil servant. To distinguish him from his son who had an identical name, he is generally referred to as Johan August Meijerfeldt the Elder. Biography Johan August Meijerfeldt was born in Livonia and entered Swedish military service in 1684. He made a rapid military career and was promoted to major general in 1704. During the Battle of Helsingborg in 1710, he led the right flank of the Swedish troops. Later that year he was promoted to lieutenant general and made commander of the Swedish troops in Szczecin. The following year he was assigned to the civilian administration as vice governor of Swedish Pomerania, and two years later promoted to governor of the province and was also appointed member of the Privy Council of Sweden. While in Pomerania he also became the rector of the University of Greifswald in 1715. He had to leave Pomerania briefly after the fall of Stralsund to a Prussian- Saxonian-Danish army that s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1810 In Sweden
Events from the year 1810 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIII Events * 6 January - Treaty of Paris (1810) * 7 January - The newly elected heir to the throne, Charles August, arrives in Sweden. * 28 May - Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden dies. Rumors suspect poisoning by the Gustavian Party. * May - Maria Nilsdotter i Ölmeskog dissolves a potential rebel army and are rewarded by the monarch for having prevented a rebellion. * 20 June - Fersen murder: Axel von Fersen the Younger, a member of the Gustavian Party, is killed by a lynch mob in Stockholm suspected of having murdered Charles August. * 21 August - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte is elected the new heir to the Swedish throne. * 20 October - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte arrives in Sweden. * 2 November - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte makes his formal entry in Stockholm and takes the name Charles John. * 2 November - The Swedish Act of Succession is passed. * 5 November - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte is formally a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulla Von Höpken
Ulrika "Ulla" Eleonora von Höpken, later ''von Wright'', née '' von Fersen'' (24 March 1749 – 17 September 1810), was a Swedish countess and courtier. She is also famous in history as one of "the three graces" of the Gustavian age; three ladies-in-waiting (Augusta von Fersen, Ulla von Höpken and Louise Meijerfeldt) immortalized in the poem ''Gracernas döpelse'' by Johan Henric Kellgren. She was a leading socialite and trendsetter in contemporary Sweden, and one of the best known personalities of the Gustavian age.Carl Forsstrand: De tre gracerna, minnen och anteckningar från Gustaf III:s Stockholm. Hugo Gebers förlag (1912) Biography Early life Ulrika Eleonora "Ulla" von Fersen was one of six daughters of Count Carl Reinhold von Fersen, royal Crown Forester and Charlotta Sparre, a lady-in-waiting . She was the niece of Axel von Fersen the Elder, a leading force within the Caps political party, and a cousin of the famous Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, a friend of Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1835 In Sweden
Events from the year 1835 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * - Inauguration of ''Kjellbergska flickskolan'' in Gothenburg. * - The pig iron trade is liberalized.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013 * - The Breaking wheel is abolished. * - Foundation of the '' Juvenals'' society. * - ''Hesperider'' by Karl August Nicander. * - ''Vännerna'' by Sophie von Knorring. Births * 14 January - Emmy Rappe, pioneer nurse (died 1896) * 15 February - Clementine Swartz, actress (died 1923) * 21 March - Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter, Sami (died 1873) * 5 June - Amanda Kerfstedt, writer (died 1920) * 30 December - John Börjeson, sculptor * - Hilda Sjölin, photographer (died 1915) Deaths * 4 June - Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll, salonnière, cultural patron and poet (born 1770) * 10 November – Anders Ljungstedt, merchant and historian (born 1759) * 23 November – Georg Adlersparre, poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Lovisa Gråå
Sofia Lovisa Gråå née ''Palm'', (1749 – 8 May 1835ssa.stockholm.seKlara döda/ref>) was a Swedish educator of actors, and noted for innovations that in modern times would be described as feminist. Biography Sofia Lovisa Palm was from 1788 married to Fredrik Gabriel Gråå, the interpreter for the Russian embassy in Stockholm, who died in 1795. She was principal of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy, the acting school of Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre, in Stockholm, from 1804 to 1812. She also, during her period as principal, oversaw student housing, with the female students in fact living in her home. Gråå advocated for continuation of the French acting traditions introduced in the 1793–1798 tenure of the French-born and -trained Anne Marie Milan Desguillons and her husband Joseph. She was the first woman to hold this position alone. It was a difficult position at this point, during the temporary dissolution of the Royal Swedish Opera in 1806–09, which caused conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Fredrik Munck
Adolf Fredrik, Count Munck (Mikkeli, Finland, 28 April 1749 – Massa, Italy, 18 July 1831), was a Swedish and Finnish noble during the Gustavian era. His family name is sometimes inaccurately given as "Munck af Fulkila" because his father usurped this family's title in the Swedish Diet but, as a matter of fact, without genealogical justification. Biography Adolf Fredrik Munck was born to Anders Erik Munck (1720 Skaraborg - 4 September 1779) and Hedvig Juliana Wright (1729 - Lojo 30 December 1808), whom he had wed at St. Michel's then country church on 15 November 1747. The couple first lived in the second lieutenant's homestead Tarkia, part of the Rantakylä manor, in Mikkeli, and this is the birthplace of their son Adolf Fredrik. They had a total of ten children, six of which lived till adult age. He entered the Swedish royal court, where he became a close friend of the king, Gustaf III. Munck became notorious for his love affairs. Among his lovers were Anna Sofia Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
