1754 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1754 in Sweden

Alexander Roslin's portrait of Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz made during the latter's stay in Paris in 1754 (in the collection of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm to which it was bequested by Adelcrantz)^[1]

Incumbents

Monarch â Adolf Frederick

Events

- Foundation of the Stenborg Company, the first known Swedish language theater group to tour Sweden and Finland.
- The cause cÃ©lÃ¨bre of Risbadstugan.
- New law on suicide: people who falsely admitted guilt or committed crimes with the intent of committing suicide through execution were to be punished by pillorying and imprisoned rather than executed.^[2]

Births

29 June - Peter Gustaf Tengmalm, naturalist (died 1803)
June 18 â Anna Maria Lenngren, writer, poet and social critic (died 1817)
28 July - Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz, poet and inventor (died 1821)
10 March - Augusta von Fersen courtier, royal mistress and profile of the Gustavian age (died 1846)
4 December - Nils Lorens SjÃ¶berg, officer and poet (died 1822)
- Caroline Lewenhaupt, courtier (died 1826)
24 September - Anna Charlotta SchrÃ¶derheim, salonniÃ¨re (died 1791)
- Georg Johan De Besche, royal favorite (died 1814)

Deaths

Christina Beata DagstrÃ¶m, glassworks owner (born 1691)

References

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