Events from the year 1777 in

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Incumbents

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Gustav III Gustav III (29 March 1792), also called ''Gustavus III'', was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Prussia. Gustav was a vocal opponent of what ...

Events

* 7 June - Gustav III visit

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in Russia. * - The construction of the

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begins. * - The 1711 regulations of midwives, with demands of a license after approval of the medical authorities, until then in practice only enforced in the capital, are enforced in the entire country.Pia Höjeberg (2011). Jordemor. Barnmorska och barnaföderska. Barnafödandets historia i Sverige. Stockholm: Carlssons Bokförlag.

Births

* 15 June -

Hedda Hjortsberg Hedvig "Hedda" Katarina Hjortsberg also known as ''Hedda Koersner'' (15 June 1777 – 3 October 1867) was a Sweden, Swedish ballerina who starred for the Royal Swedish Ballet. She was the sister of the Swedish actor Lars Hjortsberg. Life ...

, ballerina (died

1867 Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...

) * - Hedvig Amalia Charlotta Klinckowström, miniaturist (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 ...

) * - Per Krafft the Younger, painter (died

1863 Events January–March * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It proclaims t ...

) * -

Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar (8 May 1771 – 29 December 1846) was a Finnish- Karelian folksinger, seer, and cunning woman. She is regarded as the most noted among the known Finnish-Karelian folksingers of her sex. She was a strong influence on '' ...

, folk singer (died

1846 Events January–March * January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom. * January 13 – The Milan–Venice railway' ...

) *

Louise von Fersen Lovisa Sofia "''Louise'' Sophie" von Fersen, née Piper (26 October 1777 – 4 January 1849), was a Swedish countess and courtier. Louise von Fersen was the daughter of court chamberlain Sten Abraham Piper and Catharina Ehrensvärd, who had been ' ...

, courtier (died

1849 Events January–March * January 1 – France begins issue of the Ceres series, the nation's first postage stamps. * January 5 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Austrian army, led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, enters in th ...

) * Eva Fundin, actress and dancer (died

1800 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 18), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 12 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 16), ...

)

Deaths

* 6 April - Jacob Johan Anckarström the Elder, knight and colonel (died

1729 Events January–March * January 8 – Frederick, the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain is made Prince of Wales at the age of 21, a few months after he comes to Britain for the first time after growing up in Hanover ...

) * 17 November -

Johan Stålbom Johan Stålbom (1712 – 17 November 1777) was a Swedish painter. Stålbom was born at the former town of Karis (now Raseborg), Finland. He studied from 1733 with the painters Johan Pasch and Lorens Pasch the Elder in Stockholm. From the 17 ...

, painter (died

1712 In the Swedish calendar it began as a leap year starting on Monday and remained so until Thursday, February 29. By adding a second leap day (Friday, February 30) Sweden reverted to the Julian calendar and the rest of the year (from Saturday, M ...

) *

Louise Du Londel Louise-Jeanne Du Londel, later ''Lefebvre'' (1740 - Stockholm 1777), was a French actor, active in the Du Londel Troupe at the Swedish royal court in 1753–1771. She was born to the theater director Jeanne Du Londel and arrived in Sweden with h ...

, actor (born

1740 Events January–March * January 8 – All 237 crewmen on the Dutch East India Company ship ''Rooswijk'' are drowned, when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its secon ...

) *

Ulrica Catharina Stromberg Ulrica Catharina Stromberg (1710-1777) was a Swedish courtier; ''överhovmästarinna'' (Mistress of the Robes) to the queen of Sweden, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, from 1754 to 1761. Born to count Carl Julius Lewenhaupt and Christina Gustaviana Horn a ...

, courtier (born

1710 In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Saturday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 1 – In Prussia, Cölln is merged with Alt-Berlin b ...

)

References

Years of the 18th century in Sweden

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