1759_in_Sweden
1759 in Sweden
Sweden-related events during the year of 1759
Events from the year 1759 in Sweden
- 10 September - Battle of Frisches Haff
- 19 July - The Great Stockholm Fire 1759 reduced about 20 blocks with about 300 houses to ash, and rendered about 2000 persons homeless.[1]
- - The Royal Swedish Society of Sciences and Letters is founded.
- - Vinterkväde by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg
- 2 March - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer (died 1833)
- 23 March - Anders Ljungstedt, historian (died 1835)
- 18 April – Thomas Thorild, poet, critic and philosopher (died 1808)
- 16 August – Carl Fredric von Breda, painter (died 1818)
- – Anna Sophia Holmstedt, ballerina (died 1807)
- - Charlotte Eckerman, opera singer and courtesan (died 1790)
- Johan Anton Lindqvist, theatre director (died 1833)
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- 20 June – Margareta Capsia, painter (born 1682)
- Lars Bergquist: Swedenborgs Hemlighet, Stockholm 1999. ISBN 91-27-06981-8 (in Swedish).
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