1746 in Sweden

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Years: 1743 1744 1745 1746 1747 1748 1749

Events from the year 1746 in Sweden

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchFrederick I

Events[]

  • - A new sumptuary law bans the use of hooped skirts wider than 4.5 ells.[1]
  • 9 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin succeed Carl Gyllenborg as Privy Council Chancellery.
  • - Eva Ekeblad present the result of how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Births[]

  • 24 January – Gustav III of Sweden, monarch (died 1792)
  • January 31 - Pehr Hörberg, artist, painter and musician (died 1816)
  • 24 February – Uno von Troil, Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1803)
  • 14 December - Julie Alix de la Fay, ballerina (died 1826)
  • - Andreas Berlin, naturalist (died 1773)
  • - Peter Jacob Hjelm, chemist and the first person to isolate the element molybdenum (died 1813)
  • - Ulrika Fredrika Bremer, shipowner (died 1798)
  • - Eric Ruuth, Governor-General of Swedish Pomerania (died 1820)
  • - Lovisa Simson, theater director (died 1808)
  • Hedda Piper, courtier (died 1812)

Deaths[]

  • 9 December – Carl Gyllenborg, politician (born 1679)

References[]

  1. ^ Julius Ejdenstam (Swedish): Från fikonlöv till jeans. [From fig leaves to jeans] Raben & Sjögren, Lund (1977)

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