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1755 In Sweden
Events from the year 1755 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * * * * - Birgitta Holm is exiled for having converted to Catholicism. * - Careening is banned.Historiesajten 13. mars 2006 - Forbrytelser og straff i forgangne tider * - First issue of the first politician paper in Sweden, '' En Ärlig Svensk''. * - Publication of '' Hjelpreda i hushållningen för unga fruentimber'' by Cajsa Warg. * Births * 4 September - Axel von Fersen the Younger, diplomat and alleged lover of Marie Antoinette (died 1810) * 4 September - Adolf Ludvig Stierneld, politician (died 1835) * 26 September - Hans Henric von Essen, politician (died 1824) * 19 August- Helena Quiding, culture personality and builder (died 1819) Deaths * * * * * References Years of the 18th 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warg Frontispiece
In the philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, a warg is a particularly large and evil kind of wolf that could be ridden by orcs. He derived the name and characteristics of his wargs by combining meanings and myths from Old Norse and Old English. In Norse mythology, a ''vargr'' (anglicised as warg) is a wolf, especially the wolf Fenrir that destroyed the god Odin in the battle of Ragnarök, and the wolves Sköll and Hati who perpetually chase the Sun and Moon. In Old English, a ''wearh'' is an outcast who may be strangled to death. Through Tolkien's influence, wargs have featured in fantasy books by authors including George R. R. Martin, and in media such as video games and role-playing games. Etymology and origins The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey states that Tolkien's spelling "warg" is a cross of Old Norse '' vargr'' and Old English '' wearh''. He notes that the words embody a shift in meaning from "wolf" to "outlaw": ''vargr' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1810 In Sweden
Events from the year 1810 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIII Events * 6 January - Treaty of Paris (1810) * 7 January - The newly elected heir to the throne, Charles August, arrives in Sweden. * 28 May - Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden dies. Rumors suspect poisoning by the Gustavian Party. * May - Maria Nilsdotter i Ölmeskog dissolves a potential rebel army and are rewarded by the monarch for having prevented a rebellion. * 20 June - Fersen murder: Axel von Fersen the Younger, a member of the Gustavian Party, is killed by a lynch mob in Stockholm suspected of having murdered Charles August. * 21 August - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte is elected the new heir to the Swedish throne. * 20 October - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte arrives in Sweden. * 2 November - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte makes his formal entry in Stockholm and takes the name Charles John. * 2 November - The Swedish Act of Succession is passed. * 5 November - Jean Baptiste Bernadotte is formally a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1755 In Sweden
Events from the year 1755 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * * * * - Birgitta Holm is exiled for having converted to Catholicism. * - Careening is banned.Historiesajten 13. mars 2006 - Forbrytelser og straff i forgangne tider * - First issue of the first politician paper in Sweden, '' En Ärlig Svensk''. * - Publication of '' Hjelpreda i hushållningen för unga fruentimber'' by Cajsa Warg. * Births * 4 September - Axel von Fersen the Younger, diplomat and alleged lover of Marie Antoinette (died 1810) * 4 September - Adolf Ludvig Stierneld, politician (died 1835) * 26 September - Hans Henric von Essen, politician (died 1824) * 19 August- Helena Quiding, culture personality and builder (died 1819) Deaths * * * * * References Years of the 18th 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1819 In Sweden
Events from the year 1819 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Charles XIV John Events * 7 October - Södertälje Canal * - The charitable society ''Välgörande fruntimmerssällskapet'' is founded.Nordisk familjebok / 1800-talsutgåvan. 17. V - Väring It is the first organization in Sweden founded and managed by women. * - Öland County created. * - Independent Order of Odd Fellows Sweden * - Swedish Museum of Natural History Births * 19 January - Stor-Stina, Sami (died 1854 in Sweden, 1854) * 21 February – Emilia Uggla, pianist (died 1855 in Sweden, 1855) * 14 March - Erik Edlund, physicist (died 1888 in Sweden, 1888) * 25 March - Theodore Hamberg, missionary and author (died 1854 in Sweden, 1854) * 4 July – Marie Sophie Schwartz, writer (died 1894 in Sweden, 1894) * 12 July – Wilhelmina Fundin, operatic soprano (died 1911 in Sweden, 1911) * Ebba d'Aubert, pianist (died 1860 in Sweden, 1860) * Sophia Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Quiding
Helena Quiding (19 August 1755 – 2 October 1819) was a Swedish culture personality and socialite, the creator of ''Sommarvillan'' (also known as ''Sommarnöjet'' and during the 18th century as ''Heleneberg''), a historic building at Lilla Skuggan in Djurgården, Stockholm. She was a friend of Swedish poet Carl Michael Bellman, and she and circle of friends at her summer house, then known as ''Heleneberg'', is frequently mentioned in Bellman's poems and songs. Life Quiding was the daughter of the wealthy brännvinmerchant Johan Henric Lindberg (1719–1777) and his wife Helena Berg (1729–1788). Her parents were wealthy and owned real estate on Drottninggatan and Fredsgatan in the centre of Stockholm. She married in 1776 to the spicemerchant Bengt Christopher Quiding (1746–1797), and had a son, Bernhard Christopher (1778–1846). The marriage was happy, but her spouse wasted her dowry and the fortune she inherited after her father and apparently persuaded her to forge her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1824 In Sweden
Events from the year 1824 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * 2 January - First issue of the conservative ''Stockholms Dagblad''."Sweden: historical and statistical handbook". Runeberg. Retrieved 11 February 2015. * - First issue of ''Linköpings ASS''. * - Jöns Jacob Berzelius identifies boron. Births * 21 January - Bertha Valerius, photographer and painter (died 1895) * 28 June - Adolf W. Edelsvärd, architect (died 1919) * 25 November- Amalia Eriksson, inventor of the polkagris, (died 1923) * 27 December – Charlotta Norberg, ballerina (died 1892) Deaths * 28 June - Hans Henric von Essen, politician and courtier (born 1755) * 20 November - Carl Axel Arrhenius, chemist (born 1757 Events January–March * January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. * January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt ...) Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Henric Von Essen
Count Hans Henric von Essen (26 September 1755 – 28 June 1824) was a Swedish officer, courtier and statesman. Biography Hans Henric von Essen was born at Kavlås Castle in Tidaholm Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. He was a member of the Essen family. He was educated at Uppsala University. He entered the army, becoming a cornet at age 18. He accompanied Gustav III in his travels and campaigns. He accompanied Gustav III at the 1792 masquerade ball at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm on 16 March 1792, where the king was shot and mortally injured. Hans Henrik von Essen was credited with immediately ordering the doors to the ballroom to be locked, in order not to let the assassin getaway. In 1788, Hans Henric von Essen was the center of a scandal at the royal court. He had for about ten years been involved in a relationship with the famous lady-in-waiting Augusta von Fersen. In 1788, however, he proposed to Charlotta Eleonora De Geer (1771-1798) and was accepte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1835 In Sweden
Events from the year 1835 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * - Inauguration of '' Kjellbergska flickskolan'' in Gothenburg. * - The pig iron trade is liberalized.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013 * - The Breaking wheel is abolished. * - Foundation of the ''Juvenals'' society. * - ''Hesperider'' by Karl August Nicander. * - ''Vännerna'' by Sophie von Knorring. Births * 14 January - Emmy Rappe, pioneer nurse (died 1896) * 15 February - Clementine Swartz, actress (died 1923) * 21 March - Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter, Sami (died 1873) * 5 June - Amanda Kerfstedt, writer (died 1920) * 30 December - John Börjeson, sculptor * - Hilda Sjölin, photographer (died 1915) Deaths * 4 June - Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll, salonnière, cultural patron and poet (born 1770) * 10 November – Anders Ljungstedt, merchant and historian (born 1759) * 23 November – Georg Adlersparre, polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Ludvig Stierneld
Adolf Ludvig Stierneld, Baron Stierneld (1 September 1755 – 31 July 1835) was a Swedish nobleman, courtier and collector of historical documents. Recent historical research has revealed him to be one of best and most prolific document forgers in Swedish history. Biography He was the son of Samuel Gustaf Stierneld and Kristina Brigitta Falker. In 1781, his father inscribed him to the military to become captain of the Royal Life Regiment of Horse. From 1778 onward, he served as courtier to Sophia Magdalena, Queen consort of Sweden. Stierneld appeared among the opposition to Gustavus III, King of Sweden in the Riksdag of 1786 and 1789, where he was one of the leaders of the nobility. During the Riksdag of 1789, he belonged to the members of the noble opposition against the absolutist reform of the Union and Security Act, and consequently belonged to the opposition arrested by the monarch during the Riksdag. When the others arrested were released, however, he was detaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Von Fersen The Younger
Hans Axel von Fersen (; 4 September 175520 June 1810), known as Axel de Fersen in France, was a Swedish count, Marshal of the Realm of Sweden, a General of Horse in the Royal Swedish Army, one of the Lords of the Realm, aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War, diplomat and statesman, and a friend of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. He died at the hands of a Stockholm lynch mob. Life Descent and early life Axel von Fersen was born in 1755 to Field Marshal Axel von Fersen the Elder and countess Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie. He was nephew of Eva Ekeblad and grandson of General Hans Reinhold Fersen. Axel was the second of four children; he had two sisters, Hedvig Eleonora and Eva Sophie, and one brother, Fabian Reinhold. Two female cousins, Ulrika von Fersen and Christina Augusta von Fersen, were Swedish ladies-in-waiting and leading socialites of the Gustavian age. Von Fersen's ancestors came from Estonia to Sweden at the time of the Thirty Years' War ... [...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] |
Cajsa Warg
Anna Christina Warg (23March 17035February 1769), better known as Cajsa (or Kajsa) Warg, was a Swedish cookbook author and one of the best-known cooks in Swedish history. Early life Warg was born in Örebro, the younger of two daughters, to accountant Anders Warg (died 1708) and Karin Livijn (died 1755). In 1710, her mother married the nobleman Eric Rosenstråle, with whom she had seven more children and moved with to Borggård Manor outside Finspång. Career Warg left home early to be the cook and housekeeper for several powerful people in Stockholm, such as the general Count Wolter Reinhold von Stackelberg. It is not known when she started her career, but von Stackelberg had previously served with her father as an officer in the army, and it is considered likely that she was employed by him as his cook by the time he married and settled down in Stockholm in 1735. She was later employed by von Stackelberg's elder brother marshal Baron Berndt Otto von Stackelberg, and from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
