1724 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1724 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick I
Events
- - Defense treaty between Sweden and Russia.
- - The Product Act ban all foreign ships to import products from any other nations than their own.[1]
- - New law on schooling: all parents are obliged to learn their children read and write, or have teachers to do so. This law is in effect until 1807.
Births
- 16 January - Per Krafft the Elder, portraitist (died 1793)
- 10 July - Eva Ekeblad, scientist (died 1786)
- - Ulrika Strömfelt, politically active courtier (died 1780)
Deaths
- 20 September - David von Krafft, painter (born 1655)
- - Urban Hjärne, chemist (born 1641)
- - Beata Sparre, politically active courtier (born 1662)
