Events from the year 1740 in Sweden.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick I
Events
- Foundation of the retirement fund Allmänna Änke- och Pupillkassan i Sverige for the destitute widows of civil servants, undermining widow conservation.Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 22. Possession – Retzia - The Christina Johansdotter case. - The Hats (party) campaign for a war against the Empire of Russia with French support. - An unsuccessful attempt is made to exile the King's mistress Hedvig Taube from the country. December – Sagan om hästen by Olof von Dalin
Births
4 February – Carl Michael Bellman, poet, songwriter, composer and performer (died 1795)
7 September - Johan Tobias Sergel, neoclassical sculptor (died 1814) 8 December – Elisabeth Olin, opera singer and a music composer (died 1828) 16 December - Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, politician (died 1819)
Deaths
30 January – Amalia Königsmarck, dilettante artist (painter), amateur actor, and poet (died 1663) 23 March - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, explorer, scientist (died 1660)
– Christina Johansdotter, murderer date unknown – Margareta Gyllenstierna, politically active countess (died 1689)
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