1789 in Sweden

Events from the year 1789 in Sweden

Incumbents

7 January â Johan Henrik HÃ¤stesko is arrested for involvement in the Anjala conspiracy.
January â King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Stockholm.
21 February â King Gustav III has three of four estates pass to the Union and Security Act against the will of the nobility.
April - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved.
A group supported by Princess Charlotte, Princess Sophia Albertina, Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden and Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm attempts to use the discontent among to nobility toward the war and the Union and Security Act to depose the King in favor of his brother Duke Charles, but fail.^[1]
May - The Supreme Court of Sweden is founded.
12 May - StjÃ¤rnorp Castle burns down.
13 June - Battle of Porrassalmi
28 June - Battle of Uttismalm
21 July - Battle of ParkumÃ¤ki
26 July - Battle of Ãland (1789)
24 August - First Battle of Svensksund
A large group of female members of the court and aristocracy, led by the examples of Princess Charlotte, Princess Sophia Albertina and Jeanna von Lantingshausen, unleash a social boycott of the monarch in protest of the Union and Security Act.^[2]
The Swedish National Debt Office is founded.
The privileges of the nobility from 1723 is abolished.
The peasantry of the state are allowed to hunt freely.
The award FÃ¶r tapperhet i fÃ¤lt is introduced.
Summer - The Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte Conspiracy to depose the king is instigated, but discontinued, at court.

3 January - Martina von Schwerin, Lady of letters, salonist and culture personality (died 1)
- Elisabeth Charlotta Karsten, painter (died 1856)
- Johanna HÃ¥rd, pirate (died 1851)