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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] |
Charlotta Seuerling
Charlotta Antonia "Charlotte Antoinette" Seuerling (1782/1784 – 25 September 1828), was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her last name is also spelled as ''Seijerling'' and ''Seyerling''. Her first name was Charlotta Antoinetta (or Antonia), but in the French fashion of the time, she was often called Charlotte Antoinette. She was the author of the popular song "". Early life Charlotta Seuerling was the daughter of Carl Gottfried Seuerling and Margareta Seuerling, actors and directors of a travelling theatre company. She became blind at the age of four due to an incompetent smallpox vaccination. Four years later, at the age of eight, she contracted smallpox, and the scars made people consider her ugly, which made her shy. As a child, she contributed to the household by singing songs she had composed herself to the music of the harp in her parents' theatre. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1753 In Sweden
Events from the year 1753 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * 17 February – Sweden replace the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar. * 1 May - ''Species Plantarum'' by Carl Linnaeus. * 24 July - The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities is founded by Queen Louisa Ulrika. * 20 September – Inauguration of the new observatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. * - Carl Linnaeus names the ''Cannabis sativa''. * - The new Royal Palace, Stockholm, is sufficiently ready for the Royal family to move in, and they leave the Wrangel Palace for their new residence. * - The Du Londel Troupe is established in Sweden. * - The ''Kina slott'' is created and given to the queen as the birthday present. * - A new school regulation is instituted in the capital, in which all the basic educational schools of the capital is to include the subjects writing, reading, mathematics, history, geography, essay-writing, nature science and drawin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanna Von Lantingshausen
Johanna "Jeanna" von Lantingshausen, née von Stockenström, (1753–1809), was a Swedish noble and courtier. She is foremost known as the instigator of the political demonstration by the noblewomen toward Gustav III in opposition of his parliamentary act of 1789. Life She was the daughter of Riksråd count Erik von Stockenström and Johanna Bedoire and was married in 1777 to Baron Albrekt von Lantingshausen. Johanna von Lantingshausen was a popular socialite and known for her performances within the amateur theater of Gustav III of Sweden: she was formerly a maid of honor to Sophia Magdalena of Denmark and a personal friend of Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. She was also a personal friend of Gustav III of Sweden: at Gripsholm Castle in the winter of 1776, for example, it is mentioned how she, the King and Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen persuaded Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, Lewenhaupt and Adolf Ludvig Hamilton to join them in the prank to awake the sleeping courtiers fro ... [...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 thousands o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotta Roos
Charlotta Roos, née Wrangel (1771-1809) was a Swedish medium. She was the daughter of the lieutenant and noble Henrik Herman Wrangel and Fredrika Philp. In 1791, she married the rich brewer and Swedenborgianist Sven Roos (1746-1798), in and in 1803, she married her cousin, lieutenant Wilhelm Philp (1777-1808). Roos had a reputation for being able to predict the future, which was fashionable during the reign of Gustav III of Sweden, and she made some predictions which attracted attention. In 1791, she predicted misfortune to King Gustav III, something he reportedly referred to on his death bed after the assassination by Jacob Johan Anckarström in 1792.Carl Forsstrand (1913). Spåkvinnor och trollkarlar. Minne och anteckningar från Gustav III:s Stockholm (Andra upplagan). ortune tellers and magicians. Memory and notes from the Stockholm of Gustav IIIStockholm: Hugo Gebers Förlag. ISBN p. 35-36 Roos and her spouse made an attempt to profit economically on her talent. They tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1756 In Sweden
Events from the year 1756 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, Adolf Frederick Events * February - A conflict between the Riksdag and the King and the Queen result in the removal of the current governor of Gustav III of Sweden, Crown Prince Gustav, who is replaced by a new one, appointed by the parliament. * 26 May - The parliament begun to use a name stamp with the signature of the King, when the monarch refuses to sign papers of state. * July - The Coup of 1756 of Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Queen Louisa Ulrika, in which she planned to replace the reinstate the absolute monarchy by the support of the Hovpartiet, is exposed. * 23 July - Eight participants in the Queen's planned Coup d'état is executed in Stockholm.Jägerskiöld, Olof (1945). Lovisa Ulrika. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. Libris 8074766 * - The common Moonshine manufacturing of brännvin is banned. * - Ban on the import of coffee. * - Sweden and Den ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Elisabet De Broen
Maria Elisabet de Broen née Grundt (23 April 1756 – 1 May 1809), was a Swedish translator and theatre manager. Biography She was the daughter of Isak Grundt and married the actor and theatre director Abraham de Broen in 1780; they had eight children, many of whom became well known actors. She was the mother of Isaac de Broen and grandmother of Charlotta Deland. After the death of her husband in 1804, she took over the ''Djurgårdsteatern'', at the time the only theatre allowed in the capital aside for the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and worked successfully as its manager until her death. Under her guidance the theatre also toured the country and visited Gothenburg several times. Broen was a personality of the contemporary cultural world in Sweden. She is known as the translator of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan to the Swedish language (1789). Aside from the theatre she also owned a coffee house, and are noted to have sent food to Carl Michael Bellman during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angelique Magito
Maria Sofia Angela "Angelique" Magito (1809–1895) was a Swedish opera singer, concert singer, and stage actress. She was one of the best-known artists of the travelling countryside theatres in Sweden and was called the "opera singer of the countryside". Life Angelique Magito was born in Uppsala to an Italian member of the Svea Artillery Regiment, Pietro Magito. She became a student of the Royal Swedish Opera in 1817, where she was a student of Maria Franck and Karl Magnus Craelius. She made her debut at a concert at the German Church in Norrköping in 1826. Magito was a member of a number of travelling theatre companies touring the countryside all over Sweden, most notably that of Erik Djurström and Charlotta Djurström between 1832 and 1850. She successfully performed as a singer when the theater company offered operatic and other lyric performances. Initially she performed the singing parts for Charlotta Djurström, but she was soon allowed to perform herself and becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 In Sweden
Events from the year 1884 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Carl Johan Thyselius, Robert Themptander Events * - The court case of the short story collection ''Getting Married'' by August Strindberg, one of the most known incidents of the ongoing so called ''Sedlighetsdebatten''. * - The women's organization ''Fredrika-Bremer-Förbundet'' is founded in Stockholm. It is followed by the woman's organisation '' Göteborgs Kvinnoförening'' in Gothenburg. * - May - Karolina Widerström becomes the first woman to graduate in medicine in Sweden. * - First issue of '' ATL Lantbrukets Affärstidning'' * - The toy company Brio is founded. * - First issue of ''Svenska Dagbladet'' * - The nursing college Sophiahemmet University College is founded in Stockholm by the queen. * - The appointment of the Workers' Insurance Committee ** Which led in turn to the 1889 Workers' Safety Act and the foundation of the Labor Inspectorate, as well as the 1891 National Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelmina Gravallius
''Wilhelmina'' Carolina Gravallius, née ''Isaksson'' (7 September 1807, Mogata – 22 November 1884, Botkyrka), was a Swedish writer. She was born to parish vicar Carl Peter Isaksson and Anna Hallberg, and supported herself as a governess A governess is a largely obsolete term for a woman employed as a private tutor, who teaches and trains a child or children in their home. A governess often lives in the same residence as the children she is teaching. In contrast to a nanny, th ... until 1846. She debuted with the novel ''Högadals prostgård'' (1844), which was a success. During her marriage to the vicar in Thoresund Christian Gravallius in 1846-1861, she was inactive as a writer. After his death, she moved to Stockholm and resumed her career. She published many novels as serials in newspapers and magazines. She was a popular novelist within the family novels of the time, but her novels were one-dimensional and morally very simplistic. Sources C Wilhelmina Gravallius, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 In Sweden
Events from the year 1887 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Robert Themptander Events * - Swedish State Railways established. * - Swedish Painters' Union founded. * - ''Arbetet'' * - Old Stockholm telephone tower * - ''Örgryte IS'' * - First issue of the women's issue Idun (magazine). Births * 17 February – Nils Granfelt, gymnast (died 1959). * 16 June – Hugo Johansson, sport shooter (died 1977). * 18 December – Algot Lönn, cyclist (died 1953). Deaths * 7 February – Hanna Brooman, composer, translator and educator (born 1809) * Hedvig Willman, actress (born 1841) * Antoinette Nording, perfume entrepreneur (born 1814) References Years of the 19th century in Sweden 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 locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
