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1788 In Sweden
Events from the year 1788 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * 25 May - The Royal Dramatic Theatre is inaugurated in Bollhuset in Stockholm. * 28 June - The outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–90). * 17 July - Battle of Hogland * 8 August - Anjala conspiracy * - Lovisa Augusti, Caroline Müller and Franziska Stading are inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. * - The Sofia Albertina Church is completed. * - Aurora Liljenroth graduates from a gymnasium (school), which is unique for a female and attracts a great deal of attention. * - Count Adolph Ribbing and Baron Hans Henrik von Essen; the duel was held because Essen's proposal had been accepted by the father of a woman, the heiress Charlotta Eleonora De Geer, whom Ribbing had also proposed to and whom he believed to be in love with him. Essen was injured and Ribbing declared winner. The duel was regarded a scandal and a crime against the king. Births * 30 July - Kisamor, herbalist a ...
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Aurora Liljenroth
Clara ''Aurora'' Liljenroth (7 June 1772 – 28 February 1836), also incorrectly referred to as ''Charlotta Liljeroth'', was a Swedish scholar. She was one of few contemporary women to have attended and graduated from the gymnasium (1788) before they were officially opened to women, and attracted attention because of her unique position.En qvinlig svensk gymnasist för hundra år sedan. Af G. E-m 84 ur Tidskrift för hemmet Årgång 22 (1880) Biography Aurora Liljenroth was born at Visingsö, Sweden. She was the daughter of professor Sven Peter Liljenroth (1743–1801), lecturer at the Visingsö Gymnasium, and Hedvig Mariana Rudebeck (d. 1779). Liljenroth was accepted as a pupil after having excelled in a test where she gave proof of high academic knowledge in the sciences and Latin. Her father also pointed out that there had been female students at the institution previously. She was formally accepted as a student at the gymnasium at Visingsö 8 December 1780. The same term, s ...
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1788 In Sweden
Events from the year 1788 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * 25 May - The Royal Dramatic Theatre is inaugurated in Bollhuset in Stockholm. * 28 June - The outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–90). * 17 July - Battle of Hogland * 8 August - Anjala conspiracy * - Lovisa Augusti, Caroline Müller and Franziska Stading are inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. * - The Sofia Albertina Church is completed. * - Aurora Liljenroth graduates from a gymnasium (school), which is unique for a female and attracts a great deal of attention. * - Count Adolph Ribbing and Baron Hans Henrik von Essen; the duel was held because Essen's proposal had been accepted by the father of a woman, the heiress Charlotta Eleonora De Geer, whom Ribbing had also proposed to and whom he believed to be in love with him. Essen was injured and Ribbing declared winner. The duel was regarded a scandal and a crime against the king. Births * 30 July - Kisamor, herbalist a ...
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1702 In Sweden
Events from the year 1702 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XII of Sweden, Charles XII Events * * * May – Warsaw is conquered by Charles XII of Sweden. * July 19 (July 8 O.S.; July 9 Swedish calendar) – Battle of Klissow: Charles XII of Sweden decisively defeats the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish–Lithuanian-Saxony, Saxon army. * 9 July - Battle of Klissow * 19 July - Battle of Hummelshof * * * * Births *March - Lorens Pasch the Elder, painter (died 1766 in Sweden , 1766) * Unknown date - Bakelse-Jeanna, street seller and local profile (died 1788 in Sweden , 1788) * Unknown date - Margareta Momma, journalist and feminist (died 1772 in Sweden , 1772) * Unknown date - Christian Berner, ballet dancer (died 1773 in Sweden , 1773) Deaths * 12 July - Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna, politician (born 1623 in Sweden , 1623) * 12 December - Olaus Rudbeck, scientist (born 1630 in Sweden , 1630) References External links< ...
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Bakelse-Jeanna
Bakelse-Jeanna (1702–1788), was a Swedish pastry-seller, the name signifying "Pastry-Jeanna". She was a well known and distinctive character in Stockholm at that time, and often used as a figure within Swedish plays, songs and literature during the 18th and 19th centuries. Reality and fiction Jeanna originated from Åland, and spent her life as a street seller ('' månglerska'') of cakes in Stockholm, where she became a familiar figure. She came to be included in fiction during her lifetime. She was a character in the comedy ''Donnerpamp'' by Carl Israel Hallman from 1782.Flodmark, Johan: ''Stenborgska skådebanorna. Bidrag till Stockholms Teaterhistoria''. P. A. Norstedt & Söner (1893), p. 165 She came to be mentioned as a minor character in many works of Swedish literature during the 19th century. A song about her runs: The name "Bakelse-Jeanna" was long used in Stockholm as a name for female pastry street vendors. See also * Gumman Strömberg * Augusta Dorothea Eklund ...
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1864 In Sweden
Events from the year 1864 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XV of Sweden, Charles XV Events * The Skandinaviska Banken founded. * The newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter'' begins its publication. * June 18 – The Decree of Extended Freedom of Trade (Sweden), Decree of Extended Freedom of Trade introduce complete freedom of trade in Sweden: unmarried women are granted the same rights within trade and commerce as men. * Husbands are forbidden to abuse their wives. * The gymnastics profession is open to women. * Louise of the Netherlands, Queen Louise and Louise of Sweden, Princess Louise take lessons in ice skating from the pioneer Nancy Edberg, making ice skating socially acceptable for females. * Bertha Valerius appointed official photographer of the Royal Court of Sweden, royal court. * Women students are admitted as students at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts without having to apply for a dispensation. * Foundation of the ''Statens normalskola ...
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Brita Catharina Lidbeck
Brita Catharina Lidbeck, also ''Brita Catharina Munck af Rosenschöld'' (1788 – 2 March 1864) was a Swedish Dilettante concert singer. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.Gustaf Hilleström: Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien, Matrikel 1771-1971 She was the daughter of Petrus Munck af Rosenschöld, bishop in Lund. She married Anders Lidbeck, professor in Lund, in 1817. She was a student of the opera singer Karl Magnus Craelius, and made her public debut at a concert arranged by him in Stockholm in 1813. Brita Catharina Lidbeck was a non-professional concert singer. She performed at charity concerts and in musical societies. She was inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1827. She performed in public for the last time in a charity concert to the benefit of the students of the Royal Academy of Music on 6 March 1842. Singers from the royal academy performed at her funeral. See also * Anna Brita Wendelius * Christina Fredenheim Christina Elisabet Fr ...
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1862 In Sweden
Events from the year 1862 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XV Events * 18 June - The liberalization of the Swedish economy is completed by the law of free commerce of 1864; all privileges and monopolies of the guilds are abolished, all manners of trade, craftsmanship, industries and other businesses are liberalized and allowed to be practiced freely in both the cities and the countryside by all citizens, regardless of gender, who are either of legal majority or of legal minors who have been given permits of their legal guardians. * Rudberg publishes a minor revision of his proposal of the Stockholm city plan. A new administrative reform comes into effect. * Tax-paying women of legal majority (unmarried women, divorced women and widows) are granted the right to vote in municipal elections, making Sweden the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote. * Queen Louise and Princess Louise takes swimming lessons for the pioneer Nancy Edberg, making swimmi ...
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Gustaf Erik Pasch
Gustaf Erik Pasch (born Berggren) (3 September 1788 – 6 September 1862) was a Swedish inventor and professor of chemistry at Karolinska institute in Stockholm and inventor of the safety match. He was born in Norrköping, the son of a carpenter. He enrolled at Uppsala University in 1806 and graduated with a master's degree in 1821. Pasch is mostly known for the safety match, but he was also involved with making waterproof concrete for the Göta Canal, manufacture of bank notes and growing of silk worms. He married Augusta Fredrika Vilhelmina Berg in 1827. In 1827, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Safety matches Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who invented the modern Chemical formula, chemical notation, discovered that the dangerous white phosphorus in matches could be replaced with the more benign red phosphorus, but was not able to produce a match reliable enough for everyday use. Pasch, a student of Berzelius, managed to do so by moving the phosphorus ...
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1842 In Sweden
Events from the year 1842 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * 18 June - Compulsory Primary education for both sexes. * The Garden Society of Gothenburg is opened. * The theater monopoly of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm is abolished. * 28 May - Inauguration of the Mindre teatern, the first theater to be active within the city borders of Stockholm since the introduction of the monopoly of the Royal Dramatic Theatre 44 years earlier.Nordensvan, Georg (1917). Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar. Förra delen, 1772-1842. Stockholm: Bonnier. Libris 8073965 * The new Starrkärr Church is inaugurated. * '' Rosen på Tistelön'' by Emilie Flygare-Carlén. * ''Qvinnan med förmyndare'' (Woman with Guardian) by Sophie Bolander Births * 5 January - Ellen Bergman, musician and women's right activist (died 1921) * 11 February – Erik Gustaf Boström, landowner and politician (died 1907) * 22 July - Maria ...
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Kisamor
Maria Jansson, known in history as ''Kisamor'' (English: The Mother of Kisa), (30 July 1788 – 27 February 1842), was a Sweden, Swedish natural Physician, doctor, one of the most notable and well-known of 19th-century physicians in Sweden. She is also a prominent example of a Cunning folk, cunning woman in her country. Her name is Maria Jansson, but she is known in history as Kisamor ("Mother from Kisa") after the place where she worked. Biography Born in Örebro as the daughter of a healer in natural medicine, she had an early wish to follow in her father's profession. She was active as a natural healer occasionally from early years, but eventually, her father forced her to marry a farmer, Anders Olsson, in 1807. The marriage was unhappy and childless, and she divorced her husband in 1819. By this time, she functioned as a doctor in natural medicine, and made a living visiting and nursing people. She was widely reputed, and called upon from far away. In 1814,Lindorm, Erik (Swe ...
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Hans Henrik Von Essen
Count Hans Henric von Essen (26 September 1755 – 28 June 1824) was a Swedish officer, courtier and statesman. Biography Hans Henric von Essen was born at Kavlås Castle in Tidaholm Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. He was a member of the Essen family. He was educated at Uppsala University. He entered the army, becoming a cornet at age 18. He accompanied Gustav III in his travels and campaigns. He accompanied Gustav III at the 1792 masquerade ball at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm on 16 March 1792, where the king was shot and mortally injured. Hans Henrik von Essen was credited with immediately ordering the doors to the ballroom to be locked, in order not to let the assassin getaway. In 1788, Hans Henric von Essen was the center of a scandal at the royal court. He had for about ten years been involved in a relationship with the famous lady-in-waiting Augusta von Fersen. In 1788, however, he proposed to Charlotta Eleonora De Geer (1771-1798) and was acc ...
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