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1742 In Sweden
Events from the year 1742 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * Glass company Kosta Glasbruk (now known as Kosta Boda) is founded. * June - The Swedish province of Finland is occupied of the Empire of Russia during the Lesser Wrath. * 9 August - The Swedish forces in Finland surrender to the Russian army in Helsingfors. * Empress Elizabeth I of Russia states that Sweden may have Finland back if her candidate in the election for an heir to the Swedish throne, Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, is accepted. * Proclamation of the Kingdom of Finland (1742) * The Hats (party) lose government power and are replaced by a government supported by the Caps (party). * Anders Celsius construct the Celsius thermometer. * '' Adelriks och Giöthildas äfwentyr'' by Jacob Henrik Mörk. Births * 28 July - Rutger Macklean, driving figure in the reorganization of agricultural lands (died 1816) * 3 October - Anders Jahan Retzius, scientist (died 1821) * Christina Krook, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvid Horn
Count Arvid Bernhard Horn af Ekebyholm (6 April 166418 April 1742) was a Swedish general, diplomat and politician, a member of the noble Horn family. He served twice as President of the Privy Council Chancellery (1710–1719 and 1720–1738) and was one of the leading figures of the Swedish Age of Liberty. Soldier and diplomat Arvid Bernhard Horn was born at Vuorentaka Manor in Halikko (now Salo, Finland). He was the son of Gustaf Horn af Kanckas (1627–1673) and his wife Anna Helena von Gertten (1640–1709). After completing his studies at the Royal Academy of Turku, he entered the Royal Swedish Army and served for several years in the Netherlands, in Hungary under Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), and in Flanders under Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck (1690–1695). Horn stood high in the favour of King Charles XII of Sweden and was one of his foremost generals in the earlier part of the Great Northern War, being the captain lieutenant over the Drabant Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutger Macklean
Rutger Macklean (28 July 1742 – 14 January 1816) also Rutger Macklier II was a Swedish jurist, military officer, politician and land owner. He was a driving figure in the introduction of Swedish agricultural land reforms (''Enskiftet'') which made possible large-scale farming with its economy of scale. Biography Macklean was born on 28 July 1742 at Ström Manor, Hjärtum parish, Bohuslän to Baron Rutger Macklier (1688–1748) and Vilhelmina Eleonora Coyet (1719–1778). He became a student at Lund University in 1757 and graduated with a law degree in 1759. After completing his law degree, he served at the High Court in Jönköping. He became a sergeant in the Holstein regiment in 1763, in 1770 quartermaster and a cornet, and in 1771 a lieutenant in the Jämtland cavalry company and in 1776 the captain of the Kalmar regiment and a commander in the Uppvidinge company. In 1782, Macklean was an army Captain in the forces of the Swedish Army. His brother, Baron Gustaf Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1742 In Sweden
Events from the year 1742 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick I Events * Glass company Kosta Glasbruk (now known as Kosta Boda) is founded. * June - The Swedish province of Finland is occupied of the Empire of Russia during the Lesser Wrath. * 9 August - The Swedish forces in Finland surrender to the Russian army in Helsingfors. * Empress Elizabeth I of Russia states that Sweden may have Finland back if her candidate in the election for an heir to the Swedish throne, Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, is accepted. * Proclamation of the Kingdom of Finland (1742) * The Hats (party) lose government power and are replaced by a government supported by the Caps (party). * Anders Celsius construct the Celsius thermometer. * '' Adelriks och Giöthildas äfwentyr'' by Jacob Henrik Mörk. Births * 28 July - Rutger Macklean, driving figure in the reorganization of agricultural lands (died 1816) * 3 October - Anders Jahan Retzius, scientist (died 1821) * Christina Krook, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1676 In Sweden
Events from the year 1676 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Events * 1 June - Danish victory in the Battle of Öland and Danish invasion of the Swedish province of Scania.Bjerg, Hans Christian (editor, 1977) Slaget i Køge bugt 1. juli 1677: forudsætninger, forløb og følger. Søe-lieutenant-selskabet, Copenhagen. (Danish) * Creation of the ''Snapphane'' movement to resist the Swedes in the province of Scania. * Battle of Bysjön * August 17 - Swedish victory in the Battle of Halmstad * December 4 - Swedish victory in the Battle of Lund * Åbo landtag Births * Nils Reuterholm, governor (died 1756) * Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, officer and geographer (died 1747) * * * Deaths * 29 April - Anna Zippel, alleged witch (born date unknown) * 29 April - Brita Zippel, alleged witch (born date unknown) * 1 June - Lorentz Creutz, government administrator, county governor (born 1615) * June - Claes Uggla, officer (born 1614) * July - Carl Gustaf Wran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Steuchius
Johannes Steuchius (3 January 1676 – 21 June 1742) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1730 to his death. Biography He was born in Härnösand, the son of Archbishop Mathias Steuchius (1644–1730) . His family surname was ennobled in 1719 to Steuch. He was enrolled at Uppsala University in 1692 and in 1695 at Lund University. Steuchius received a doctorate in philosophy at Uppsala in 1700 and in 1701, he took up a position as professor and librarian at Lund University. In 1707 he returned to Uppsala University where he was appointed professor of metaphysics and logic as well as extra ordinary professor of theology. Steuchius left academic life in 1723, when he was appointed superintendent of the Diocese of Karlstad In 1730, he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Linköping however following the subsequent the death of his father, he was appointed to succeed him as Archbishop of Uppsala. References Other sources Nordisk familjebok, arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Roberg
Lars Roberg (4 January 1664 – 21 May 1742) was a Sweden, Swedish physician and natural science researcher. He served as a professor of anatomy and medicine at Uppsala University. Biography Roberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of the royal apothecary Daniel Roberg. He matriculated at Uppsala University at a young age in 1675, and left for a long foreign journey in 1680 to Germany, France and England, during which he studied at the University of Wittenberg and University of Leiden. He completed his doctorate in medicine at Leiden in 1693. He became a professor of anatomy and practical medicine at Uppsala University in 1697 and retained the chair until 1740. Lars Roberg was the teacher of Carl Linnaeus and Peter Artedi. In 1708, he founded a clinic for the purpose of facilitating the practical education of medical students. ''Nosocomium academicum'' at Oxenstiernska huset in Uppsala would later be merged into the Uppsala University Hospital. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1664 In Sweden
Events from the year 1664 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XI Events * Carl Gustaf Wrangel appointed Lord High Constable of Sweden. * Publication of Gautreks saga. * A new sumptuary law, replaced and amended the previous one of 1644, restrict the guests at engagement dinners to family and bans the custom of conducting them in bath houses; weddings are no longer to be celebrated for more than one day; the guests at weddings are restricted; dress fashion are regulated according to class and only the nobility, the clergy and the highest circles of the burgher class are allowed valuable textiles (in the latter cases in more discreet colors), and then only within the restrictions of customary dress, as the habit of adjusting to fashion had become more and more common, which worried the authorities who wished to have a permanent dress fashion for each class: this law is however not respected.Svenska folkets underbara öden / IV. Karl XI:s och Karl XII:s tid * Births * 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1786 In Sweden
Events from the year 1786 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * 5 April - The Royal Swedish Academy is founded. * 1 May – King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Stockholm. * 23 June - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved. *23 October - Charter rights are given to Östersund. * Date unknown- The first school to give higher education to female students, the ''Societetsskolan'', is founded in Gothenburg. *Date unknown - Foundation of the Swedish West India Company *Date unknown - Maria Christina Bruhn becomes the first woman to be given a patent as an inventor in Sweden. *Date unknown - The first hot air balloons are released in Sweden by the popular acrobat Antonio Bartolomeo Spinacuta.Flodmark, Johan: Stenborgska skådebanorna. Bidrag till Stockholms teaterhistoria. Stockholm. Norstedt & söner. Births * 19 January – Carl Gustaf Kröningssvärd, lawyer and historian (died 1859) * 13 May - Anna Ehrenström, poet (died 1857) * 8 August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (, ; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786) was a Swedish German pharmaceutical chemist. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine, among others. Scheele discovered organic acids tartaric, oxalic, uric, lactic, and citric, as well as hydrofluoric, hydrocyanic, and arsenic acids. He preferred speaking German to Swedish his whole life, as German was commonly spoken among Swedish pharmacists.Fors, Hjalmar 2008. Stepping through Science’s Door: C. W. Scheele, from Pharmacist's Apprentice to Man of Science. Ambix 55: 29–49 Biography Scheele was born in Stralsund, in western Pomerania, which at the time was a Swedish Dominion inside the Holy Roman Empire. Scheele's father, Joachim (or Johann) Christian Scheele, was a grain dealer and brewer from a respected Pomeranian family. His mother was Margaretha Eleanore Warnekros. Friends of Scheele's pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1806 In Sweden
These are the collective events from the 18th century of the year 1806 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * 6 November - Swedish defeat at Lübeck in the Franco-Swedish War. * - The constructing of the Södertälje Canal begun. * - The Royal Swedish Opera and the Royal Swedish Ballet are closed down by the King and remain closed until 1809. * - The steam engine is introduced in Stockholm at the Eldkvarn gristmill.Andersson, Magnus (1997). Stockholms årsringar – En inblick i stadens framväxt (in Swedish). Stockholmia förlag. . * - Helena Ekblom becomes active as a preacher. Births * 22 January - Ludvig Manderström, Swedish - Norwegian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (died 1873) * 1 July - Clara Bonde, courtier (died 1899) * 14 August - Cecilia Fryxell, educator (died 1883) * 4 November - Anders Selinder, ballet master (died 1874) * Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter (died 1858) Deaths * 22 August - Conrad Quensel, naturalist (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Krook
Christina Krook (1742 – 1806) was a Finnish educator. She was the principal of a Finishing school for girls in Åbo, regarded as the most successful in Finland at the time. Life Christina Krook was the daughter of the official Gustav Krook (1704-1782), and Anna Christina Sund. She never married, and worked as a governess from 1765. In about 1782, she founded a boarding school in her home in Åbo. It was a typical school of its kind, with focus on accomplishments for girls expected to become wives and mothers and hostesses in high society. She and her sister Lovisa Juliana educated daughters from the rich merchant class and the nobility from the surrounding country side in the French language, etiquette, handicrafts, literature, drawing and dance.Aarniola, Sonja, Säädynmukaista opetusta. Mamsellit ja kotiopettajat säätyläisperheissä Turun seudulla 1700-luvun lopulla'', 2015 The school was successful in Åbo and Finland, where previously there had been no schools for girls, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1821 In Sweden
Events from the year 1821 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * – First issue of the newly merged ''Post- och Inrikes Tidningar''. * 27 March – The Wolf of Gysinge was killed after having attacked 31 people over a three-month period. Births * 24 February - Sven Adolf Hedlund, newspaper publisher and politician (died 1900) * 2 March – Axel Adlercreutz, politician, civil servant, President of the Göta Court of Appeal, Prime Minister for Justice (died 1880) * 1 April – Geskel Saloman, portrait and genre painter (died 1902) * 6 May - Emelie Holmberg, composer, singer, pianist, music teacher and organist (died 1854) * 21 September – Aurora Ljungstedt, horror writer (died 1908) * 13 October – Oscar Byström, composer (died 1909) * - Fanny Stål, classical pianist (died 1889) Deaths * 15 March - Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz, poet and inventor (born 1754) * 6 October – Anders Jahan Retzius, chemist, botanist and entomologist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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