1712 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XII

Events

• 30 February 1712 - Sweden temporarily adopts February 30 as a day to adjust the Swedish calendar back to the Julian calendar.
• December 9 - Battle of Gadebusch: Sweden defeats Denmark and Saxony.
• The queen dowager's favorite Anna Catharina von Bärfelt is arrested and tried.

Births

• 31 March - Anders Johan von Höpken, politician
• July 19- Carl Fredrik Mennander, archbishop
• Peter Lindahl, actor
• Sophia Schröder, concert soprano
• Brita Laurelia, publicist, book printer, and poet

Deaths

• unknown - Juliana Schierberg, royal favorite
• - Christina Eleonora Drakenhielm, Catholic convert