1722 in Sweden

Events from the year 1722 in Sweden

Incumbents Monarch – Frederick I

Events

- Women are banned from working in the Swedish Post office.Ohlander, Ann-Sofie & Strömberg, Ulla-Britt, Tusen svenska kvinnoår: svensk kvinnohistoria från vikingatid till nutid, 3. (A Thousand Swedish Women's Years: Swedish Women's History from the Viking Age until now), [omarb. och utök.] uppl., Norstedts akademiska förlag, Stockholm, 2008

Births

3rd of January - Fredrik Hasselqvist, naturalist and traveler (died 1752) 18th of March - Ulrika Eleonora von Düben, courtier and royal favorite (died 1758) 23rd of December - Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel (died 1765)

- Anna Elisabeth Baer, ship owner (died 1799)

Deaths

29th of January- Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Fältmarskalk (field marshal) (Born 6th August 1651, Died Age of 70)

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