1763 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1763 in Sweden

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchAdolf Frederick

Events[]

  • 15 February - The end of the Seven Years' War.
  • - A economic crisis results in the bankruptcy of several manufactures.
  • - Sweden and Great Britain resume diplomatic contacts after fifteen years of estrangement.
  • - The new poor care law states that every congregation is responsible to provide for the poor in the parish.
  • - The first Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm is dismantled and the second is built.
  • - by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg
  • - Billingsfors Church is completed.

Births[]

  • 12 December – Margareta Alströmer, singer and painter, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (died 1816)

Deaths[]

  • 24 March – Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie, countess and heroine (born 1723)
  • 30 May – Gustaviana Schröder, singer (born 1701)
  • 29 June – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, writer (born 1718)
  • 11 July – Peter Forsskål, explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (born 1732)
  • 12 August – Olof von Dalin, poet (born 1708)
  • 17 December – George Bogislaus Staël von Holstein, baron and field marshal (born 1685)

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