1763 in Sweden
Years in Sweden: | 1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 |
Centuries: | 17th century · 18th century · 19th century |
Decades: | 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s |
Years: | 1760 1761 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 |
Events from the year 1763 in Sweden
Incumbents
Events
- 15 February - The end of the Seven Years' War.
- - A economic crisis results in the bankruptcy of several manufactures.
- - 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
- 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)
Deaths
- 24 March – Catherine Charlotte De la Gardie, countess and heroine (born 1723)
- 29 June – Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, writer (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)
References
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