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Events from the year 1746 in Sweden
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- - A new sumptuary law bans the use of hooped skirts wider than 4.5 ells.[1]
- 9 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin succeed Carl Gyllenborg as Privy Council Chancellery.
- - Eva Ekeblad present the result of how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Births
[edit]- 24 January – Gustav III of Sweden, monarch (died 1792)
- January 31 - Pehr Hörberg, artist, painter and musician (died 1816)
- 24 February – Uno von Troil, Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1803)
- 14 December - Julie Alix de la Fay, ballerina (died 1826)
- - Andreas Berlin, naturalist (died 1773)
- - Peter Jacob Hjelm, chemist and the first person to isolate the element molybdenum (died 1813)
- - Ulrika Fredrika Bremer, shipowner (died 1798)
- - Eric Ruuth, Governor-General of Swedish Pomerania (died 1820)
- - Lovisa Simson, theater director (died 1808)
- Hedda Piper, courtier (died 1812)
Deaths
[edit]- 9 December – Carl Gyllenborg, politician (born 1679)
References
[edit]- ^ Julius Ejdenstam (Swedish): Från fikonlöv till jeans. [From fig leaves to jeans] Raben & Sjögren, Lund (1977)
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