Events from the year 1759 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Adolf Frederick
Events
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.Lars Bergquist: Swedenborgs Hemlighet, Stockholm 1999. (in Swedish). - The Royal Swedish Society of Sciences and Letters is founded. - Vinterkväde by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg
Births
1 March - Carl Pontus Gahn, Swedish military officer (died 1825) 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)
Deaths
20 June – Margareta Capsia, painter (born 1682)
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