1752 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1752 in Sweden:
Incumbents
Events
- The Riksdag of the Estates introduce a reform in which the Privy Council Chancellery is henceforth to be elected without the participation of the monarch.
- The spinning schools which had been established through the 1739 reform are given government support, and medals are created for spinning mistresses to encourage the textile industry.[1]
- The first modern hospital, Serafimerlasarettet, is founded.
Births
- 8 September â Carl Stenborg, opera singer (died 1813)
- 12 December â Nils von Rosenstein, civil servant and propagator for enlightenment thinking (died 1824)
- Barbara Pauli, fashion trader and milliner (approximate year)
Deaths
- 9 February Fredrik Hasselqvist, traveller and naturalist (born 1722)
- Elisabet Fritz, industrialist
- Christina Piper, politically active countess, builder and industrialist (born 1673)
