1711 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1711 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XII
Events
- Great Northern War plague outbreak
- The profession of midwifery is regulated and all future midwives are to be licensed by the Collegium Medicum after having been tutored by an already licensed midwife for a period of two years and passed the examination of a doctor before being allowed to practice their trade (until 1777, this applied only to the capital): the midwives are also banned from using instruments.[1]
Births
- 5 March â Carl Gustaf Pilo, painter (died 1793)
- 23 May - Ulla Tessin, courtier (died 1768)
- Niclas Gustaf Duncan, spy (died 1771)
- Françoise Marguerite Janiçon, writer (died 1789)
