Events from the year 1763 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Adolf Frederick
Events
15 February - The end of the Seven Years' War. - An economic crisis results in the bankruptcy of several manufacturers. - 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. - Ode öfver själens styrka by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg - Billingsfors Church is completed.
Births
26 January – Charles XIV John, king of Sweden and Norway (died 1844) 29 March – Eberhard von Vegesack, Swedish army officer (died 1818) 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) Jöns Peter Hemberg – member of parliament and founder of Skåne's Private Bank. (died 1834)
Deaths
24 March – Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie, countess and courtier (born 1723) 30 May – Gustaviana Schröder, singer (born 1701) 29 June – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, writer, feminist and salong hostess (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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