Events from the year 1705 in

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 ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

– Charles XII

Events

* 16 July - Battle of Gemauerthof * 21 July -

Battle of Warsaw (1705) The Battle of Warsaw (also known as the Battle of Rakowitz or Rakowiec) Rakowiec later became part of the Ochota district of Warsaw. was fought on 31July 1705 (Gregorian calendar)Unless otherwise stated, this article uses dates from the Gregor ...

* * * 18 November – Pace between Sweden and Poland in the

Treaty of Warsaw (1705) The Treaty of Warsaw was concluded on 18 November ( O.S.) / 28 November 1705 during the Great Northern War.Bromley (1970), p. 699 It was a peace treaty and an alliance between the Swedish Empire and the faction of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwe ...

. * - Great Oulu Fire of 1705 * * - The Maria Johansdotter case.

Births

* * 22 February - Peter Artedi, naturalist (died

1735 Events January–March * January 2 – Alexander Pope's poem ''Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'' is published in London. * January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera ''Ariodante'' is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent G ...

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Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm (17051769) was a ''Freiherr'' and Chamberlain (''kammarherre'') in Sweden. His father was the royal adviser (''riksråd'') Josias Cederhielm, and his mother was Anna Åkerhielm. Cederhielm is perhaps best remembered today a ...

, courtier (died

1769 Events January–March * February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.Denis De Lucca, ''Jesuits and Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture in ...

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Deaths

* 8 February - Beata Magdalena Wittenberg, courtier (born

1644 It is one of eight years (CE) to contain each Roman numeral once (1000(M)+500(D)+100(C)+(-10(X)+50(L))+(-1(I)+5(V)) = 1644). Events January–March * January 22 – The Royalist Oxford Parliament is first assembled by King ...

) * * 12 April -

Henrik Florinus Henrik Florinus (1633 – 12 April 1705), born Henricus Florinus, was a Finnish priest, writer and translator. In 1702, he published the first collection of Finnish proverbs called ''Wanhain suomalaisten tawaliset ja suloiset sananlascut'' (''" ...

, priest, writer and translator (born

1633 Events January–March * January 20 – Galileo Galilei, having been summoned to Rome on orders of Pope Urban VIII, leaves for Florence for his journey. His carriage is halted at Ponte a Centino at the border of Tuscany, where ...

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Years of the 18th century in Sweden

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