1782 in Sweden
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Gustav III
Events
- 27 May - Jewish immigration to Sweden is legalized.
- 19 September - Inauguration of the new building of the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm.
- 30 September - The Royal Swedish Opera relocates from Bollhuset to a new modern opera house, which is inaugurated with Cora och Alonzo by Johann Gottlieb Naumann.[1]
- - A Catholic church is opened in Stockholm.
- - Hydrogen cyanide discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
- - Elisabeth Olin inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
- - Elsa Fougt becomes the manager of the Royal printing press.
Births
- 6 February - Gertrud Ahlgren, cunning woman and natural healer (died 1874)
- 8 February - Malla Silfverstolpe, salonnière (died 1861)
- 13 May â Johan Gustaf Sandberg, painter (died 1854)
- 13 November - Esaias Tegnér, poet (died 1846)
Deaths
- 13 May â Daniel Solander, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus, (born 1733)
- 16 July - Queen Dowager Louisa Ulrika, queen dowager (born 1720)
- - Elisabeth Christina von Linné, scientist (born 1743)
