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1802 In Sweden
Events from the year 1802 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * 10 July - The British occupation of the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy discontinues.Saint-Barthélemy-sällskapet – Saint Barthélemy under Sverigetiden * - Tantalum discovered by Anders Gustaf Ekeberg. * - The foundation of the Yellow Rose (society). * - The Cause célèbre of Metta Fock. Births * 25 March - Maria Silfvan, actress (died 1865) * - Emma Fürstenhoff, florist (died 1871) Deaths * 9 October - Ebba Morman, actress (born 1769) * - Adolf Ludvig Hamilton, politician, memoir writer (born 1747 Events January–March * January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. * February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II Coul ...) References Years of the 19th century in Sweden {{Sweden-year-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Silfvan
Maria Elisabeth Silfvan, as married Lempke and then Westerlund, in Swedish called Maria Sylvan, (25 March 1802 in Turku – 10 September 1865 in Oulu), was a Finnish actor, among the first professional native actors in Finland. Life Maria Silfvan was born in Turku. In Finland, there was no permanent theatres and no native actors in the beginning of the 19th century; theatre was played by travelling Swedish theatre troupes touring the country. Between 1813 and 1827, the first theatre was managed in Turku by the troupe of K.G. Bonnevier, who was given permission by the Russian emperor, to build a simple theatre house in the city. Maria Silfvan was employed by Bonuvier in an unknown time, and was reportedly discovered when selling tickets and candy to the visitors of the theatre. Silfvan was hired in this troupe, and was seen as a natural dramatic talent. The year of her debut is unknown. In 1825, she played the leading part in Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart (play) opposi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1747 In Sweden
Events from the year 1747 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Frederick I of Sweden, Frederick I Events * May - Alliance between Sweden and France; Sweden is to receive subsidies. * May - Defense alliance between Sweden and Prussia. * 5 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin President of the Riksdag. * - The government of the Hats (party) has the physician of the monarch, A. Blackwell, executed for treason. * - Pehr Kalm travel to North America. * The ''Vadstena adliga jungfrustift'' begin its activity.Oscar Fredrik Strokirk: Kultur- och personhistoriska anteckningar / Första delen Births * 26 March - Elis Schröderheim, politician (died 1795 in Sweden , 1795) * - Adolf Ludvig Hamilton, politician, memoir writer (died 1802 in Sweden , 1802) * 24 February - Ulla von Liewen, royal lover (died 1775 in Sweden , 1775) * - Maria Aurora Uggla, royal favorite (died 1826 in Sweden , 1826) * - Margareta Seuerling, actress (died 1820 in Sweden , 1820) * 25 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Ludvig Hamilton
Count Adolf Ludvig Hamilton (1747–1802) was a Swedish count and politician. His father was Count Gustav David Hamilton. He was one of the leaders of the opposition of the nobility against King Gustav III of Sweden in 1789. He also authored a critical book about Gustav III: . Biography Adolf Ludvig Hamilton was the son of Gustaf David Hamilton. He became an ensign in 1759 and in 1766 he became chamberlain for the then crown prince Gustav III (later King Gustav III of Sweden). In 1771 he became chamberlain for Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. He resigned from this later post in 1782 and moved to the Blomberg estate in Västergötland, Sweden. Count Hamilton was initially in favor of King Gustav III. However, he gradually developed a considerable hatred against the king, and after his resignation as chamberlain he joined the opposition in the Riksdag of the Estates. He was the first to proclaim in the at Stockholm Palace that the Act of Union and Security proposed by King Gustav III ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1769 In Sweden
Events from the year 1769 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * May - The Riksdag of the Estates assemble in Norrköping, the Caps (party)-government fall, and the Riksdag move to Stockholm. * 30 May – Claes Ekeblad appointed Privy Council Chancellery. * * * * October – Prussia, Russia and Denmark form an alliance in order to preserve the current Swedish political system to keep Sweden unstable. * * '' Swea rikes historia'' by Sven Lagerbring Births * 2 February - Maria Franck, actress (died 1847) * 19 August - Ulrica Eleonora Rålamb, politically active countess and spy (died 1847) * * * * * date unknown - Ebba Morman, actress (died 1802) Deaths * 5 February – Cajsa Warg, cook book writer (born 1703) * * * * * * * 28 June - Elisabeth Stierncrona, writer (born 1714) * Jean Grossaint De la Roche-yon, spy (born 1713) References Years of the 18th century in Sweden Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebba Morman
"Ebba" Jeanette Morman (1769 – 9 October 1802) was a Swedish stage actress. She was active at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1791-1802 and was popular actress, known for her demonic character portraits. Life Ebba Morman married cleric Johan Peter Brolin in 1788, but was divorced by 1792, when she signed a contract with the name Ebba Jeanette de Morman. She had a relationship with the actor Carl Schylander from 1792 to her death from tuberculosis in 1802. They married shortly before her death. Career Morman debuted at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1791. She performed at the Royal Swedish Opera before she was contracted at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1792. She was a valued member of the Royal Dramatic Theatre and had the position to refuse to be a replacement for any actors than the two female stars, Fredrique Löwen and Marie Louise Marcadet. She also performed as a guest actor at the Stenborg Theatre. She was a tragedienne, but she is foremost remembered as a star wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1871 In Sweden
Events from the year 1871 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XV Events * Poor Care Regulation of 1871 replace the Poor Care Regulation of 1847. * July – Handelsbanken is established in Stockholm. * Stockholm Central Station is inaugurated.Hall, Thomas (1999). Huvudstad i omvandling – Stockholms planering och utbyggnad under 700 år (in Swedish). Stockholm: Sveriges Radios förlag. . * ''Geologiska föreningen'' is founded. Births * 7 February – Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer (died 1927) * 14 February - Gerda Lundequist, actress (died 1959) * 15 February – John W. Nordstrom, Swedish-born American co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain (d. 1963) * 12 March – Oscar Hedström, co-founder of the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company, makers of the Indian Motocycle (died 1960) Deaths * 25 February - Anna Sofia Sevelin, opera singer (born 1790) * 30 March - Louise of the Netherlands, queen consort (born 1828) * - Anna Sundström, chemist (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Fürstenhoff
Emilia "Emma" Fürstenhoff, née ''Lindegren'' (1802 – March 1871), was a Swedish artist (florist), internationally known for her manufacturing and arrangements of artificial flowers of wax, which were a novelty in contemporary Europe. Life Emma Fürstenhoff was born in Stockholm, the daughter of the poet and royal secretary Carl Johan Lindegren (d. 1815) and the noble Sofia Silfverskiöld. Both she and her mother was the subject of her father's poems. Her father later became an alcoholic and was ruined, her parents divorced, and she moved to the capital with her mother. She displayed an early interest in flowers, and when she left her father's property with her mother, it is said that she asked her mother to bring all the flowers with them. In Stockholm, she became the fosterchild of a mamsell Forslöf, lady in waiting to Princess Sophie Albertine of Sweden. She was described as brilliant and passionate. Around the age of twenty, she married for love to A. Fürstenhoff, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1865 In Finland
Events January–March * January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City. * January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher: United States forces launch a major amphibious assault against the last seaport held by the Confederates, Fort Fisher, North Carolina. * January 15 – American Civil War: United States forces capture Fort Fisher. * January 31 ** The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (conditional prohibition of slavery and involuntary servitude) passes narrowly, in the House of Representatives. ** American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. * February ** American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina burns, as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces. * February 3 – American Civil War : Hampton Roads Conference: Union and Confederate leaders discuss peace terms. * February 8 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metta Fock
Metta (or Mätta) Charlotta Fock, née ''Ridderbjelke'' (10 June 1765 – 7 November 1810), was a Swedish noble and sentenced murderer. She was executed for murdering her spouse, son and daughter in order to marry her lover. Life Metta Fock was the daughter of quartermaster noble Axel Erik Ridderbjelke and Helena Margareta Gripenmark. In 1783, she married the noble sergeant Henrik Johan Fock (1757-1802). The marriage was arranged. The couple had several children, four of whom, two daughters and two sons, were alive by 1800. The couple lived on the estate Lilla Gisslaved in Trevattna parish in Västergötland. It was a small farm with only one tenant, and their economic standard was very low for members of the nobility. The mental capacity of Henrik Johan Fock was restricted. He was described as "very foolish, though not insane",Henrik Fock: Släkten Fock: personer och händelser under 450 år which was reportedly why he never advanced from the rank of sergeant: he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cause Célèbre
A cause célèbre (,''Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged'', 12th Edition, 2014. S.v. "cause célèbre". Retrieved November 30, 2018 from https://www.thefreedictionary.com/cause+c%c3%a9l%c3%a8bre ,''Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary''. S.v. "cause célèbre." Retrieved November 30, 2018 from https://www.thefreedictionary.com/cause+c%c3%a9l%c3%a8bre ; pl. causes célèbres, pronounced like singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate. The term continues in the media in all senses. It is sometimes used positively for celebrated legal cases for their precedent value (each ''locus classicus'' or "case-in-point") and more often negatively for infamous ones, whether for scale, outrage, scandal, or conspiracy theories. The term is a French phrase in common usage in English. Since it has been fully adopted into English and is included unitalicized in English dictionaries,''American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
