Events from the year 1726 in

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Incumbents

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– Frederick I

Events

* 12 January - Conventicle Act (Sweden) * 26 October - Women are formally allowed employment at the '' Kungliga Hovkapellet'', the first officially employed females being Judith Fischer and

Sophia Schröder Sophia Schröder (Stockholm, 1712 – 29 January 1750) was a Swedish people, Swedish soprano, active as a concert vocalist at the royal orchestra, the ''Kungliga Hovkapellet'', at the royal Swedish court, the first of her gender to have been offic ...

.Gunhild Karle (2002). Kungl. Hovmusiken i Stockholm och dess utövare 1697-1771. Uppsala: TryckJouren. * -

Johann Konrad Dippel Johann Konrad Dippel, also spelled Johann Conrad Dippel (10 August 1673 – 25 April 1734), was a German Pietist theologian, physician, alchemist and occultist. Life Dippel was born at Castle Frankenstein near Mühltal and Darmstadt, and theref ...

visit Sweden, after which Radical Pietism spreads rapidly. * - The first

Steam engine A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be trans ...

created in Sweden. * - The

Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar (1683 in Svenarum – 16 February 1733 at Björnskog in Hultsjö), was a Swedish corporal and crossdresser who served in the Great Northern War. She was put on trial for having served in the military posing as a man an ...

case.

Births

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Margaretha Donner Anna Margaretha "Greta" Donner, née ''Lyhtberg'' (11 February 1726 – 24 September 1774) was a Swedish business person. She was known as ''Donner Mum'', ''Madam Donner'', and "Madam Herr Donner" (''Mr Madame Donner''). Life Born in Visby, Swed ...

, business person (died

1774 Events January–March * January 21 – Mustafa III, List of Ottoman Sultans, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I. * January 27 ** An angry crowd in Boston, Massachusetts seizes, tars, and f ...

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Deaths

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References

Years of the 18th century in Sweden

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