1773 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1773 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch â Gustav III
Events
- January 18 â The first opera performance in the Swedish language, Thetis et Pelée, performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera.[1]
- August â Inauguration of the pleasure gardens Vauxhall (Gotheburg).
- The Royal Swedish Ballet is founded.
- The title Hovsångare is created by King Gustav III of Sweden, with the first recipients being Elisabeth Olin and Carl Stenborg.
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts is formally organized. Fifteen artists are accepted as members the same year, among them being Lorens Pasch the Younger and Ulrika Pasch.
- A theater designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz is constructed for the royal court at Gripsholm Castle.
- The population death rate doubles[2] and the Child mortality rate rose to 49% in of newborns under the age of five,[3] due to famine and dysentery caused by crop failures in the previous years.[4]
- Mobilization of the army in the province of Finland because of a feared attack from the Empire of Russia.
- De nymodiga fruntimren by Catharina Ahlgren.
Births
- 9 December - Marianne Ehrenström, culture personality and multiple artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (died 1867)
- - Inga à berg, opera singer and stage actress (died 1837)
Deaths
- - Beata Sabina Straas, actress (born unknown date)
