Events from the year 1773 in Sweden

• Monarch – Gustav III

• January 18 – The first opera performance in the Swedish language, Thetis et Pelée, performed by Carl Stenborg and Elisabeth Olin in Bollhuset, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera.^[1]
• August – Inauguration of the pleasure gardens Vauxhall (Gotheburg).
• The Royal Swedish Ballet is founded.
• The title Hovsångare is created by King Gustav III of Sweden, with the first recipients being Elisabeth Olin and Carl Stenborg.
• The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts is formally organized. Fifteen artists are accepted as members the same year, among them being Lorens Pasch the Younger and Ulrika Pasch.
• A theater designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz is constructed for the royal court at Gripsholm Castle.
• The population death rate doubles,^[2] due to famine and dysentery caused by crop failures in the previous years.^[3]
• Mobilization of the army in the province of Finland because of a feared attack from the Empire of Russia.
• De nymodiga fruntimren by Catharina Ahlgren.

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• 9 December - Marianne Ehrenström, culture personality and multiple artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (died 1867)
• - Inga Åberg, opera singer and stage actress (died 1837)

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• - Beata Sabina Straas, actress (born unknown date)