1725 in Sweden
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick I
Events
- Public bath houses are banned to prevent the spread of syphilis.
- The new building of the Danviken Hospital is completed.[1]
- Inauguration of the Finnish Church, Stockholm.
- Young sailor Erik Persson à ngerman is abducted and enslaved by corsairs in Algiers on May 10th. His wife appeals to King Frederick I to gather money to buy his freedom. The king grants her request.[2]
- Swedish count and politician Carl Gustaf Tessin is appointed ambassador to Vienna and becomes prominent in the Riksdag of the Estates.
Births
- February 5 â Anna Maria Rückerschöld, cookery book author and social critic (died 1805)
- Brita Ryy, educator (died 1783)
- Anna Maria Brandel, industrialist (died 1799)
Deaths
- April 14 â Maria Romberg, convicted murderer (born 1697)
- May 23 â Anna Maria Schmilau, tapestry artist
- May 31 â Erik Carlsson Sjöblad, governor and admiral (born 1647)
