1736 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick I

Events

• January 23 – The Civil Code of 1734 is passed, thereby replacing the Kristofers landslag and the Stadslagen, giving the country and the cities the same law and Sweden its first national civil code.
• 2 May - A scientific expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders Celsius, departs from Dunkerque and travels to Tornedalen: they arrive in Stockholm on 21 May and depart for Lappland on 6 June.

Births

• 9 August - Clas Alströmer, naturalist
• 20 December - Charlotta Cedercreutz, painter
• 21 July - Ulla Adlerfelt, painter
• 19 August - Erland Samuel Bring, mathematician
• - Hedvig Löfwenskiöld, poet

Deaths

• 2 April - Brigitta Scherzenfeldt, memoirist and weaving teacher