Events from the year 1783 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Gustav III
Events
- Creation of the Walhalla-orden - Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States–Sweden) June - Gustav III has plans to conquer the Danish province of Norway, and meet with Catherine the Great in Finland in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade her to end the Russian-Danish alliance. - Norrköping jungfrustift is founded. 27 September - Gustav III begun his trip to Italy and France. - Bacchi Tempel, by Carl Michael Bellman - Giovanna Bassi is engaged at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.
Births
12 January - Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer (died 1847)
3 September - Sophie Karsten, ballerina (died 1862) 22 October - Maria Johanna Görtz, artist (died 1853) 18 December - Johan Niclas Byström, sculptor (died 1848)
Deaths
Brita Ryy, educator (born 1725) 26 May – Anna Maria Hilfeling, miniaturist (born 1713) date unknown - Maria Katarina Öhrn, opera singer and actress (born 1756) 1 November - Carl Linnaeus the Younger, naturalist (born 1741) Helena Escholin, vicar's wife (born 1713) Françoise-Éléonore Villain, actor (born 1761)
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