1786 in Sweden
Events from the year '''1786 in Sweden'''
Incumbents
Events
- 5 April - The Royal Swedish Academy is founded.
- 1 May – King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Stockholm.
- 23 June - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved.
- 23 October - Charter rights are given to Östersund.
- Date unknown- The first school to give higher education to female students, the Societetsskolan, is founded in Gothenburg.
- Date unknown - Foundation of the Swedish West India Company
- Date unknown - Maria Christina Bruhn becomes the first woman to be given a patent as an inventor in Sweden.
- Date unknown - The first hot air balloons are released in Sweden by the popular acrobat Antonio Bartolomeo Spinacuta.
Births
- 19 January – Carl Gustaf Kröningssvärd, lawyer and historian
- 13 May - Anna Ehrenström, poet
- 8 August - Bengt Erland Fogelberg, sculptor
- 18 September – Leonhard Fredrik Rääf, folklorist, local historian and conservative politician
- Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm, dramatist and translator
Deaths
- 18 March – Gustaf Lundberg, painter
- 11 May - Anna Sofia Ramström, courtier
- 15 May - Eva Ekeblad, scientist
- 21 May – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, pharmaceutical chemist
- 22 May – Carl Fredrik Mennander, bishop