Events from the year 1748 in

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Incumbents

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– Frederick I

Events

* - The King is no longer able to participate in politics because of health reasons, and a stamp with his signature is manufactured and used by the government of the Riksdag of the Estates. * - The Royal Order of the Seraphim, Order of the Sword and Order of the Polar Star is created. * - A new law disbands the privileges of all factories who cannot support themselves with the exception of private home manufacture. * - The

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are formally allowed to live in Sweden. The condition is however that they settle permanently and abandon their nomadic life style. * - Eva Ekeblad is inducted to the

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. She is the first female member there. * - A fund and a home is established for the support of widows and orphans of sailors.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013

Births

* * 27 February - Anders Sparrman, naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (died

1820 Events January–March *January 1 – Nominal beginning of the Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7). *January 8 – General Maritime T ...

) * 5 March -

Jonas Dryander Jonas Carlsson Dryander (5 March 1748 – 19 October 1810) was a Swedish botanist. Biography Dryander was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was the son of Carl Leonard Dryander and Brita Maria Montin. He was a pupil of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala ...

, botanist (died

1810 Events January–March * January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales. * January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic. * Janua ...

) * * -

Louis Masreliez Louis Masreliez (1748 – 19 March 1810), born Adrien Louis Masreliez, was a French born, Swedish painter and interior designer. Biography Masreliez was born in Paris and came to Sweden at the age of 5 in 1753. He was the son of French ornam ...

, painter and interior designer (died

) * -

Hedvig Wigert Hedvig Christina Wigert née ''Falk'' (February 1748 – 4 January 1780) was a Swedish opera singer. She belonged to the pioneer generation of performers of the Royal Swedish Opera. Hedvig Falk belonged to the first group of singers hired at th ...

, opera singer (died

1780 Events January–March * January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet. * February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to allow ...

) * - Charlotte Manderström, courtier (died

1816 This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in s ...

)

Deaths

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References

Years of the 18th century in Sweden {{Sweden-year-stub