1754 in Sweden

Events from the year 1754 in Sweden

Incumbents Monarch – Adolf Frederick

Events

- Foundation of the Stenborg Company, the first known Swedish language theater group to tour Sweden and Finland. - The cause célèbre of Risbadstugan. - New law on suicide: people who falsely admitted guilt or committed crimes with the intent of committing suicide through execution were to be punished by pillorying and imprisoned rather than executed.Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985

Births

29 June - Peter Gustaf Tengmalm, naturalist (died 1803) June 18 – Anna Maria Lenngren, writer, poet and social critic (died 1817) 28 July - Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz, poet and inventor (died 1821) 10 March - Augusta von Fersen courtier, royal mistress and profile of the Gustavian age (died 1846) 4 December - Nils Lorens Sjöberg, officer and poet (died 1822) - Caroline Lewenhaupt, courtier (died 1826) 24 September - Anna Charlotta Schröderheim, salonnière (died 1791) - Georg Johan De Besche, royal favorite (died 1814)

Deaths

Christina Beata Dagström, glassworks owner (born 1691)

References