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1771 In Sweden
Events from the year 1771 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick then Gustav III Events * 12 February – Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden dies, and are succeeded by Gustav III of Sweden (at the time on a visit to France). * 1 March - The news of the King's death reach Gustav III of Sweden in Paris. * 30 May - Gustav III of Sweden returns to Sweden as monarch. * 8 September – The Royal Swedish Academy of Music is created. * - The ''Du Londel Troupe'' is dissolved. * - Widespread famine in Sweden following a dry summer and then heavy rains during the late summer and fall, leading to widespread crop failures. * - The first newspaper in the Swedish province of Finland, ''Tidningar utgifne af et Sällskap i Åbo''. * - Sweden and France creates an alliance. * - Foundation of the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. * - Foundation of the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences. * - The notorious thief Jacob Guntlack is executed in the capital in front of thousands o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1800 In Sweden
Events from the year 1800 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * 14 August - Trollhätte Canal, later a part of the Göta Canal, is inaugurated. * '' Linnéska institutet'' is inaugurated. Bertil Boëthius, "Dalman, Johan Wilhelm", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, vol. 10, pp. 83–93. Births * 10 January – Lars Levi Læstadius, religious reformer (died 1861) * 1 October – Peter Wieselgren, founder of the Swedish temperance movement (died 1877) * Helena Eldrup, educator (died 1872) Deaths * 21 May - Carl August Ehrensvärd, artist and architect (born 1745) * 29 May - Charlotte Slottsberg, ballerina (born 1760) * Julie Eckerman, courtesan and spy (born 1765) * Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie, courtier (born 1732) * Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle, poet (born 1760) * Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist, actress and singer (born 1771) * Eva Fundin, actress and dancer (born 1777 Events January–March * January 2 – American Revolut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1694 In Sweden
Events from the year 1694 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Events * - Building of the Steninge Palace * The Great Jewel Fraud against the Swedish National Bank is exposed, in which five women, around their leader Greta Duréel, are discovered to have stolen money for years through a deposition fraud. Duréel, släkt, urn:sbl:17711, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Bengt Hildebrand.), hämtad 2013-11-30. * Births * 28 October - Johan Helmich Roman, composer (died 1758) * - Brigitta Sahlgren, industrialist (died 1771) * * * * Deaths * 22 August - Maria Sofia De la Gardie, industrialist (born 1627) * July - Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, soldier and lover of Sophia Dorothea of Celle (born 1665 Events January–March * January 5 – The ''Journal des sçavans'' begins publication of the first scientific journal in France. * February 15 – Molière's comedy '' Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre'', based on the Spanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigitta Sahlgren
Brigitta Sahlgren ( née Ekmarck; 1694 – 12 May 1771) was a Swedish businessperson. She was the managing director of the '' Sahlgrenska sockerbruket'' ("Sahlgren Sugar Refinery") in 1736–1771 and a trade- and shipping company in 1736–1744. Life Brigitta Sahlgren was the daughter of the merchant Olof Pehrsson Ekmarck and Christina Stillman and married in 1715 to merchant Jacob Sahlgren, who founded the first sugar refinery in Sweden, ''Sahlgrenska sockerbruket'', in 1729, which became one of the greatest businesses in Gothenburg. She took over the refinery, as well as the trade- and shipping company which was also owned by her spouse, when she was widowed in 1736. Sahlgren had a monopoly upon the sugar industry in Sweden. When another merchant applied for permission to found a new one in 1740, she sued him before the government and won after a two-year legal battle. She was represented in court by her son-in-law Count Sparre and her brother-in-law Niclas Sahlgren Niclas Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1744 In Sweden
Events from the year 1744 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * 30 January - Execution of Skinnar Per Andersson. * March - The threatening war with Denmark is prevented by a treaty between Sweden and Denmark. * July - The Empire of Russia agree to recall their troops from Sweden. * 18 August - The wedding between Crown Prince Adolf Frederick and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia on Drottningholm Palace. * August - Creation of the ''L'Ordre de l'Harmonie''. * By royal letter, the right to sell Tobacco in the Swedish cities is reserved for women in need of support, ruined male burghers and war invalids: this is confirmed a second time in 1772, then with the addition that the tobacco sellers are only permitted to employ females or non-adult males.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013 Births * 29 January - Catharina Charlotta Swedenmarck, writer (died 1813) * 9 June – Frans Suell, businessperson (died 1818 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1711 In Sweden
Events from the year 1711 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XII Events * Great Northern War plague outbreak * * * * * * The profession of midwifery is regulated and all future midwives are to be licensed by the ''Collegium Medicum'' after having been tutored by an already licensed midwife for a period of two years and passed the examination of a doctor before being allowed to practice their trade (until 1777, this applied only to the capital): the midwives are also banned from using instruments.Pia Höjeberg (2011). Jordemor. Barnmorska och barnaföderska. Barnafödandets historia i Sverige.. Stockholm: Carlssons Bokförlag. Births * 5 March – Carl Gustaf Pilo Carl Gustaf Pilo (5 March 1711 – 2 March 1793) was a Swedish artist and painter. Pilo worked extensively in Denmark as a painter to the Danish Royal Court and as professor and director at the Royal Danish Academy of Art ( da, Det Kongel ..., painter (died 1793 in Sweden, 1793) * * * * 23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niclas Gustaf Duncan
Niclas Gustaf Duncan (20 November 1711 – 23 April 1771) was a Swedish post official and spy. Between 1743 and 1748, he was active as an agent of Carl Gustaf Tessin Count Carl Gustaf Tessin (5 September 1695 – 7 January 1770) was a Swedish Count and politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock. He was one of the most brilliant personages of his day, and the mo ... to act as a double agent in Swedish service and spy on the Russian diplomat Johann Albrecht Korff under the protect of acting as his spy on Herman Cedercreutz, who was the Swedish envoy in Russia at the time. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Duncan, Niclas Gustaf 1711 births 1771 deaths Swedish spies 18th-century spies 18th-century Swedish people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1852 In Sweden
Events from the year 1852 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events * - Amalia Assur becomes the first female dentist in Sweden.Kjellander Barbro: "På Amalia Assurs tid. Några anteckningar om och kring den första svenska kvinnliga tandläkaren" (The days of Amalia Assur. Some notes about and in connection to the first female dentist in Sweden) * - The manufacturer ''Hästens'' is established. * - ''Kungsportsplatsen'' is inaugurated. * - Sophia Posse takes over the ''Hammarstedtska skolan''. Births * 25 April - Fritz Eckert, architect (died 1920) * 14 December - Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, prince (died 1854) * 13 June – Anna Whitlock, social reformer and women's rights activist (died 1930) * 23 May - Mathilda Grabow, opera singer (soprano) (died 1940) * 24 November - Helena Munktell, composer (died 1919) Deaths * 25 May - Charlotta Berger, writer (born 1784) * 18 June - Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland, composer (born 1827) * Aurora Wilhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrika Åberg
Ulrika Åberg (1771–1852) was a Swedish ballerina. She was active in the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1782-95. She was one of the first native ballet dancers in the Royal Swedish Ballet. Life Ulrika Åberg was engaged as a Coryfé in the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1782-85, as a second dancer in 1785-87, and as a premier ballerina in 1787-95. She was a student of the star ballerina of the Gustavian ballet, the Italian ballerina Giovanna Bassi, from the age of twelve. She was educated in the Italian style of ballet dancing by Bassi, and followed her mentor in her style and parts. She was considered as one of her country's first native ballet dancers. Her most popular part was in the ballet ''Tillfälle för Tjuven'', where she made a success. Among her other well known parts were Lise in ''La Rosére de Salency'' by Jean Marcadet with Giovanna Bassi, Anna Sofia Lind, Antoine Bournonville and Joseph Saint-Fauraux Raimond the season of 1786–87, and Mirza in ''Mirza och Lindor'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1854 In Sweden
Events from the year 1854 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events * The Telegraph connection is established between Stockholm and Gothenburg. * The first Train station. * The free church of Anna Johansdotter Norbäck is separated from the state church. * Founding of the ''Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring''. * November - '' Muteupproret''.Rosengren, Ingemar (1991). Muteupproret 1854. En berättelse om ett misslyckat polisingripande Births * 12 January - Hugo Birger, painter (died 1887) * 3 September – Anna Sandström, reform educator (died 1931) * 14 November - Dina Edling, opera singer (died 1935) Deaths * 13 March - Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, prince (born 1852) * 20 March - Anna Leonore König, singer (born 1771) * 27 May - Stor-Stina, Sami (born 1819 Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Leonore König
Anna Leonore König, née ''Falck'' (29 October 1771 – 20 March 1854), was a Swedish singer and musician (keyboard). She was solo singer in the "Musikaliska inrättningen" (The Musical Institution) in Norrköping in 1797–1801. She was married to Georg Henric König. König was elected as a member (chair 153) by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music 31 December 1794. See also * Christina Fredenheim Christina Elisabet Fredenheim (née Hebbe) (1762–1841) was a Swedish artist, singer and noblewoman. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Christina Fredenheim was a well known and acknowledged non professional musician and sin ... * Margareta Alströmer References * Nyström, Pia; Kyhlberg-Boström Anna, Elmquist Anne-Marie: Kungl. Musikaliska akademien: matrikel 1771-1995, Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien, Stockholm 1996, Kungl. Musikaliska akademiens skriftserie, 84. ISSN 0347-5158. . Libris 7749167. {{DEFAULTSORT:Konig, Anna Leonore 1771 births Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1809 In Sweden
Events from the year 1809 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf then Charles XIII Events * 29 March - Coup of 1809: Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a ''coup d'état'' and his uncle is made Regent.Isakson, Börje (2009). Två dygn som förändrade Sverige : 1809 års revolution. Stockholm: Natur & Kultur. Libris 10701773. * May - The Committee on the Constitution (Parliament of Sweden) is established. * 10 May - The former King's son is also deprived of his right to the throne. * 5 June - The former king's uncle Charles XIII of Sweden is placed upon the throne after having accepted a new constitution. * 6 June - Instrument of Government (1809). * 18 July - Charles August is elected new heir to the throne of Sweden. * 19-20 August - Battle of Ratan and Sävar * 17 September - Treaty of Fredrikshamn * Inauguration of the '' Malmö Teater'' in Malmö. * December - The former monarch and his family leaves Sweden for Germany. * '' Allmänna institutet f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
