Events from the year 1768 in Sweden

Incumbents

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

– Adolf Frederick

Events

* 12 December – The King lays down the government, which creates the December Crisis (1768), that cause the parliament to call the

Riksdag of the Estates Riksdag of the Estates ( sv, Riksens ständer; informally sv, Ståndsriksdagen) was the name used for the Estates of Sweden when they were assembled. Until its dissolution in 1866, the institution was the highest authority in Sweden next to t ...

. * 18 December – The monarch resume the government. * - The ecstatic religious movement of

Karin Olofsdotter Karin Olofsdotter Bång, also known as ''Bång-Karin'' (1720–1790), was a Swedish spiritual ecstatic leader. She was the leader of an apocalyptic cult together with Mårten Thunberg, vicar of the Lillhärdal parish in Jämtland, a cult known ...

begins.

Births

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Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm Lovisa Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm (1768–1845) was a Finnish - Swedish artist, painter, writer and noble. Biography She was the daughter of Major Jacob Georgsson Malm (1735–1789) and Eleonora Lovisa von Köhnnigstedt (1745–1821). She married ...

, painter (died

1845 Events January–March * January 10 – Elizabeth Barrett receives a love letter from the younger poet Robert Browning; on May 20, they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''. * January 2 ...

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Deaths

* 14 December - Ulla Tessin, courtier (born 1711)

References

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