1754 in Sweden explained

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.^[1]

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)

Notes and References

1. Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985