Events from the year 1753 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Adolf Frederick
Events
17 February – Sweden replace the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar. 1 May - Species Plantarum by Carl Linnaeus. 24 July - The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities is founded by Queen Louisa Ulrika. 20 September – Inauguration of the new observatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. - Carl Linnaeus names the Cannabis sativa. - The new Royal Palace, Stockholm, is sufficiently ready for the royal family to move in, and they leave the Wrangel Palace for their new residence. - The Du Londel Troupe is established in Sweden. - The Kina slott is created and given to the queen as the birthday present. - A new school regulation is instituted in the capital, in which all the basic educational schools of the capital is to include the subjects writing, reading, mathematics, history, geography, essay-writing, nature science and drawing.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013 - Creation of the Tankebyggarorden.
Births
13 June – Johan Afzelius, chemist (died 1837) 2 July – Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen, courtier (died 1792) 16 September – Märta Helena Reenstierna, diarist (died 1841) 8 October - Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg, princess (died 1829) - Jeanna von Lantingshausen, politically active countess (died 1809)
Deaths
13 July – Sten Carl Bielke, official, scientist and member of the Swedish parliament (born 1709)
- Hedvig Mörner, politically influential countess (born 1672) 26 October - Margareta von Ascheberg, landowner (born 1671)
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