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1772 In Sweden
Events from the year 1772 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Gustav III of Sweden, Gustav III Events * February - The pamphlet ''Det Olyckliga Swenska Fruentimrets Böneskrift till Allmänheten'' by Anna Maria Rückerschöld, counted as one of the first feminist publications in the women's issue in Sweden. * 29 May – Coronation of King Gustav III and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, Queen Sophia Magdalena in Stockholm. * 29 May – The Order of Vasa is created. * June - Johan Christopher Toll arrive in Scania to prepare a coup d'état. * July - Jakob Magnus Sprengtporten arrive in Finland and take hold of the Sveaborg Fortress in preparation of a coup d'état. * 12 August – Rebellion in Scania. * 16 August – Rebellion in Finland. * 19 August – Revolution of 1772: King Gustav III stages a coup d'état against the parliament in Stockholm with the support of Hovpartiet. * 21 August – King Gustav III forces the parliament to accept the Swedish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1772
Events January–March * January 10 – Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor of India, makes a triumphant return to Delhi 15 years after having been forced to flee. * January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark. * February 12 ** Breton-French explorer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec discovers the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean. ** The Virginia Assembly amends an act to describe the punishments for the practice of gouging. * February 17 – The First Partition of Poland is agreed to by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria. * February 22 – The First Saudi State is founded in the Diriyah Emirate by Muhammad bin Saud Al Muqrin. * March 8 – Biela's Comet is first discovered by French astronomer Jacques Leibax Montaigne, but not proven to be a periodic comet until 1826, when Wilhelm von Biela correctly identifies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovpartiet
Hovpartiet (English: ''The Royal Court Party'') was the name for a political group in Sweden during the Age of Liberty. It had the goal to strengthen royal power against the parliament of the Riksdag of the Estates. It is most known in history as the force behind Queen Louisa Ulrika's Coup of 1756, but it did in fact exist in some form or another from 1723 until Gustav III's Revolution of 1772 when its goal of an absolute monarchy was finally realized. History First Hovpartiet The first ''Hovparti'' was formed during the Riksdag of 1723, and consisted of those supporting king Frederick I of Sweden in his attempt to increase royal power and authority. The complete fiasco in this attempt, however, efficiently crushed the party. Second Hovpartiet After the succession of Adolf Frederick of Sweden to the throne in 1751, the royalist absolutists found a new leader in the new queen, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, who wished to overthrow the Instrument of Government (1719), Swedish const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 thou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famine
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, Demographic trap, population imbalance, widespread poverty, an Financial crisis, economic catastrophe or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased death, mortality. Every inhabited continent in the world has experienced a period of famine throughout history. In the 19th and 20th century, generally characterized Southeast and South Asia, as well as Eastern and Central Europe, in terms of having suffered most number of deaths from famine. The numbers dying from famine began to fall sharply from the 2000s. Since 2010, Africa has been the most affected continent of famine in the world. Definitions According to the United Nations World Food Programme, famine is declared when malnutrition is widespread, and when people have started dying of starvation through lack of access to suf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
The Sahlgrenska University Hospital ( Swedish: ''Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset'') is a hospital network associated with the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. With 17,000 employees the hospital is the largest hospital in Sweden by a considerable margin, and the second largest hospital in Europe. It has 2,000 beds distributed across three campuses in Sahlgrenska, Östra, and Mölndal. It provides emergency and basic care for the 700,000 inhabitants of the Göteborg region and offers highly specialised care for the 1.7 million inhabitants of West Sweden. It is named after philanthropist Niclas Sahlgren. History Sahlgrenska University Hospital was formed in 1997 by the merger of three hospitals: Sahlgrenska Hospital, Östra Hospital, and Mölndal Hospital. The Sahlgrenska University Hospital has been operated by the Västra Götaland Regional Council since its formation in 1999. The Sahlgrenska Academy Sahlgrenska Academy is the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Physiographic Society In Lund
The Royal Physiographic Society in Lund ( sv, Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund), is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. It was founded in Lund, on December 2, 1772, and received a Royal Charter by Gustav III, on March 6, 1778. . Scholarly-Societies.org. Accessed June 8, 2012. See also *References External links Official website Physiographic
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Pawnbroker
A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been ''pawned'' to the broker are themselves called ''pledges'' or ''pawns'', or simply the collateral. While many items can be pawned, pawnshops typically accept jewelry, musical instruments, home audio equipment, computers, video game systems, coins, gold, silver, televisions, cameras, power tools, firearms, and other relatively valuable items as collateral. If an item is pawned for a loan (colloquially "hocked" or "popped"), within a certain contractual period of time the pawner may redeem it for the amount of the loan plus some agreed-upon amount for interest. In the United States the amount of time, and rate of interest, is governed by law and by the state commerce department policies. They have the same license as a bank, which is highly regulated. If the loan is not paid (or extended, if applica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brännvin
Brännvin is a Swedish liquor distilled from potatoes, grain, or (formerly) wood cellulose. It can be plain and colourless, or flavoured with herbs and spices. Beverages labelled ''brännvin'' are usually plain and have an alcohol content between 30% and 38%. The word ''brännvin'' means "burn (distilled) wine". It is cognate with English ''brandyine', Norwegian ''brennevin'', Danish ''brændevin'', Dutch ''brandewijn'', Finnish ''Viina'', German '' Branntwein'', and Icelandic ''brennivín''. A small glass of brännvin is called a ''snaps'' (cf. German schnapps), and may be accompanied by a ''snapsvisa'', a drinking song. Outside Scandinavia In the US, a Chicago producer makes a bitter brännvin (beskbrännvin), called Jeppson's Malört. "Malört" () is the Swedish word for the plant ''Artemisia absinthium'', wormwood, often used as an ingredient in absinthe. In Scandinavian culture Brännvin was central to the semi-mythical world in the songs of Sweden's bard, Carl Michael Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nya Smedjegården
''Smedjegården'' (literally: "Blacksmiths' Yard"), initially ''Nya smedje gården'' ("New Blacksmiths' Yard"), was a prison in Stockholm, in use between 1636 and 1896. The name was derived from a prison, similarly known as '' Smedjegården,'' in the dungeons of the royal castle '' Tre Kronor,'' in use until the castle was destroyed by fire in 1697. There the prisoners were made to labor in the castle's smithy. The ''Nya smedjegården'' was founded in 1636 at the street Drottninggatan in Stockholm. From 1664 onward, it was the site for prisoners awaiting death penalty in Stockholm. The building housed also a house of correction, an infamous torture chamber ''(Rosenkammaren),'' until the abolition of torture in 1772, and an orphanage ''( Allmänna Barnhuset)'' until 1886. Until 1849, the prison was used for both male and female prisoners—normally not kept separate from each other. Then ''Smedjegården'' was transformed into a women's prison. The institution was replaced in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosenkammaren
Rosenkammaren (literally: 'The Rose Chamber') was a torture chamber in the prison ''Nya smedjegården'' in Stockholm. It consisted of a long room, flooded with knee deep water from a spring. The prisoners sentenced to be tortured were chained by a hook from the ceiling in the knee deep water, which was normally icy cold. On 27 September 1772, torture Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons such as punishment, extracting a confession, interrogational torture, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties. definitions of tortur ... was abolished by Gustav III of Sweden, and the Rose Chamber, along with the other torture chamber in the capital, '' Tjuvakällaren'' in the Town Hall (active 1471-1772), was closed and its equipment destroyed. References * Nordisk familjebok, 1904–1926. Social history of Sweden Individual rooms Torture 18th-century disestablishments in Sweden History of Stockholm {{to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons such as punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties. Some definitions are restricted to acts carried out by the state, but others include non-state organizations. Torture has been carried out since ancient times. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western countries abolished the official use of torture in the judicial system, but torture continued to be used throughout the world. A variety of methods of torture are used, often in combination; the most common form of physical torture is beatings. Since the twentieth century, many torturers have preferred non-scarring or psychological methods to provide deniability. Torturers are enabled by organizations that facilitate and encourage their behavior. Most victims of torture are poor and marginalized people suspected of crimes, although torture against political prisoners or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
