1759 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1759 in Sweden
(North is downwards. The fire started near the sea Mälaren at the bottom of the map.)
Incumbents
Events
- 10 September - Battle of Frisches Haff
- 19 July - The Great Stockholm Fire 1759 reduced about 20 blocks with about 300 houses to ash, and rendered about 2000 persons homeless.[1]
- - The Royal Swedish Society of Sciences and Letters is founded.
- - Vinterkväde by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg
Births
- 1 March - Carl Pontus Gahn, Swedish military officer (died 1825)
- 2 March - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer (died 1833)
- 23 March - Anders Ljungstedt, historian (died 1835)
- 18 April â Thomas Thorild, poet, critic and philosopher (died 1808)
- 16 August â Carl Fredric von Breda, painter (died 1818)
- â Anna Sophia Holmstedt, ballerina (died 1807)
- - Charlotte Eckerman, opera singer and courtesan (died 1790)
- Johan Anton Lindqvist, theatre director (died 1833)
Deaths
- 20 June â Margareta Capsia, painter (born 1682)
