Events from the year 1779 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Gustav III
Events
Carl Wilhelm Scheele creates Glycerol. The first theater in Gothenburg, Comediehuset, is inaugurated.Wilhelm Berg: Anteckningar om Göteborgs äldre teatrar / Band 2. 1794–1816 (1896–1900)
Births
26 July - Erik Gustaf Göthe, sculptor (died 1838) 20 August - Jöns Jacob Berzelius, chemist (died 1848) 15 October - Johan Olof Wallin, orator, poet and archbishop (died 1839) Charlotta Aurora De Geer, salonist (died 1834) 16 December – Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe, court official (died 1858) Peter Westerstrøm, mass murderer (died 1809)
Deaths
16 November - Pehr Kalm, explorer (born 1716) Henrika Juliana von Liewen, salonist (born 1709) Jean François Beylon, courtier (born 1717)
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