1743 in Sweden explained

Events from the year 1743 in Sweden

Incumbents

March - The peasant estate in the Riksdag of the Estates support Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark before Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, as candidate to the post of heir to the Swedish throne.
May - Three of the four estates in the Riksdag of the Estates: the nobility, the clergy and the burghers, offers to support the Russian candidate as heir to the Swedish throne in exchange for favorable peace terms with Russia.
11 June - Dalecarlian Rebellion (1743). A rebel army of peasants march toward Stockholm to prevent the election of Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp as heir to the Swedish throne and punish those responsible for the war.^[1]
16 June - Preliminary peace between Sweden and Russia.
22 June - The rebel army reach Stockholm, where they are dispersed by the military.^[2]
23 June - Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, the candidate of Empress Elizabeth I of Russia, is elected heir to the Swedish throne.
July - Execution of Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock.
7 August - Treaty of Åbo.
September – Denmark-Norway threatens to declare war because their candidate, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, was not chosen as heir to the Swedish throne, which result in Sweden having to accept a Russian protective force in Sweden.
- Den sörgande Turtur-dufvan by Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht.
- Elisabeth Christina von Linné publishes her discovery of the Tropaeolum majus.

- 1 February - Johan Christopher Toll, soldier (died 1817)
April 17 - Johan Törnström, sculptor (died 1828)
- 11 November - Carl Peter Thunberg, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (died 1828)
- 15 December - Eva Helena Löwen, socialite, agent and royal favorite (died 1813)

- July - Execution of Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock, Lieutenant General (born 1685)
22 march - Emerentia von Düben, royal favorite (born 1669)
23 September - Erik Benzelius the younger, theologian (born 1675)
20 October - Michael Dahl, painter (born 1659)

Beckman, Bjarne, Dalupproret 1743 och andra samtida rörelser inom allmogen och bondeståndet (Göteborg 1930).
Beckman, Bjarne, Dalupproret 1743 och andra samtida rörelser inom allmogen och bondeståndet (Göteborg 1930).