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1736 In Sweden
Events from the year 1736 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * January 23 – The Civil Code of 1734 is passed, thereby replacing the ''Kristofers landslag'' and the ''Stadslagen'', giving the country and the cities the same law and Sweden its first national civil code.Nationalencyklopedin (NE) * 2 May - A scientific expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders Celsius, departs from Dunkerque and travels to Tornedalen: they arrive in Stockholm on 21 May and depart for Lappland on 6 June. * * * * * * * Births * 9 August - Clas Alströmer, naturalist (died 1794) * 20 December - Charlotta Cedercreutz, painter (died 1815) * 21 July - Ulla Adlerfelt, painter (died 1765) * 19 August - Erland Samuel Bring, mathematician (died 1798) * - Hedvig Löfwenskiöld, poet (died 1789) Deaths * * * * * 2 April - Brigitta Scherzenfeldt, memoiris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Charlotta Wrangel
Maria ''Charlotta'' Cedercreutz, married surname ''Wrangel'' (1736–1815), was a Swedish artist, lady-in-waiting and baroness. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. Her parents were the courtier Baron Lars Cedercreutz and Catharina Siljeström. Despite the fact that her beauty and fortune made her an attractive match, she is said to have dislike the thought of marriage and refused to marry for many years. She was married in 1770 to General Major Baron Georg Gustaf Wrangel af Adinal. From 1774, she was one of the six head ladies in waiting of the court of the Queen, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. A talented Dilettante artist, she was inducted into the Royal Academy of Arts. At court, she was described as intelligent and cultivated but also very coquettish and particular about rank and attention, and it was said that she participated with eager in the pleasures and intrigues of the court. At least for a period, she played an important part in the royal court: sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clas Alströmer
Baron Clas Alströmer (9 August 1736 – 5 March 1794) was a Swedish naturalist who was a student of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University. From 1760 to 1764 he traveled throughout Southern Europe, collecting plants for Linnaeus. He established a botanical garden and natural museum near Gothenburg which was managed by the notable botanist Anders Dahl, another student of Linnaeus. Alströmer was the son of the industrialist Jonas Alströmer. The genus ''Alstroemeria ''Alstroemeria'' (), commonly called the Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alstroemeriaceae. They are all native to South America, although some have become naturalized in the United States, Mex ...'' was named after him by Linnaeus. Notes 1736 births 1794 deaths Swedish botanists Uppsala University alumni Members of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities {{Sweden-botanist- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1736 In Sweden
Events from the year 1736 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * January 23 – The Civil Code of 1734 is passed, thereby replacing the ''Kristofers landslag'' and the ''Stadslagen'', giving the country and the cities the same law and Sweden its first national civil code.Nationalencyklopedin (NE) * 2 May - A scientific expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders Celsius, departs from Dunkerque and travels to Tornedalen: they arrive in Stockholm on 21 May and depart for Lappland on 6 June. * * * * * * * Births * 9 August - Clas Alströmer, naturalist (died 1794) * 20 December - Charlotta Cedercreutz, painter (died 1815) * 21 July - Ulla Adlerfelt, painter (died 1765) * 19 August - Erland Samuel Bring, mathematician (died 1798) * - Hedvig Löfwenskiöld, poet (died 1789) Deaths * * * * * 2 April - Brigitta Scherzenfeldt, memoiris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1684 In Sweden
Events from the year 1684 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XI of Sweden, Charles XI Events * * * * The religious process against the visionary Eva Margareta Frölich in Stockholm.Nordisk familjebok Births * Brigitta Scherzenfeldt, memoirist and weaving teacher who was captured during the Great Northern War and lived as a slave in the Dzungar Khanate in Central Asia (died 1736 in Sweden , 1736). * * * * Deaths * * * References 1684 in Sweden, Years of the 17th century in Sweden 1684 by country, Sweden {{Sweden-year-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
