Events from the year 1799 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf
Events
- Coffee is banned: due to the opposition, this unpopular law is abolished again in 1802.Svenska folkets underbara öden / VII. Gustaf III:s och Gustav IV Adolfs tid 1772-1809 - Maximum seu archimetria by Thomas Thorild 14 December – The office of Lord High Chancellor of Sweden is abolished for the final time.
Births 13 March - Maria Dorothea Dunckel, playwright (died 1878) 22 March – Fredrik Vilhelm August Argelander 24 March - Nils Almlöf, actor (died 1875) 31 October - Maria Fredrica von Stedingk, composer (died 1868) 9 November - Gustav, Prince of Vasa, prince (died 1877) 11 December - Charlotte Thitz, educator (died 1889) Helena Larsdotter Westerlund, educator (died 1865)
Deaths
2 February - Dorothea Maria Lösch, war heroine (born 1730) 11 March - Anna Lisa Jermen, entrepreneur (born 1770) 25 May - Barbara Ekenberg, entrepreneur (born 1717) Anna Elisabeth Baer, ship owner (born 1722) Anna Maria Brandel, industrialist (born 1725)
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