Events from the year 1747 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick I
Events
May - Alliance between Sweden and France; Sweden is to receive subsidies. May - Defense alliance between Sweden and Prussia. 5 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin President of the Riksdag. - The government of the Hats (party) has the physician of the monarch, A. Blackwell, executed for treason. - Pehr Kalm travel to North America. The Vadstena adliga jungfrustift begin its activity.Oscar Fredrik Strokirk: Kultur- och personhistoriska anteckningar / Första delen
Births
26 March - Elis Schröderheim, politician (died 1795) - Adolf Ludvig Hamilton, politician, memoir writer (died 1802) 24 February - Ulla von Liewen, royal lover (died 1775) - Maria Aurora Uggla, royal favorite (died 1826) - Margareta Seuerling, actress (died 1820) 25 July - Johanna Lohm, educator (died 1834) Carl Johan Ingman, spy (died 1813)
Deaths
19 June – Jakob Benzelius, archbishop (born 1683) 8 August - Mårten Triewald, engineer and physicist (born 1691)
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