1774 in Sweden

Wedding between Prince Charles and Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. by Hilleström

Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, shortly after her wedding. Portrait by Alexander Roslin, 1774.

Events from the year 1774 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav III

Events

• 28 April – The Freedom of the press is restricted.
• 7 June - Wedding between Prince Charles and Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.
• - Aaron Isaac emigrates to Stockholm from Germany: he is the first Jew who is granted permission to immigrate to Sweden.
• Maria Christina Bruhn presents her invention, a package for gunpowder to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Births

• 11 February - Hans Järta, administrator and revolutionary (died 1847)
• 17 November - Lisa Erlandsdotter, tapestry maker (died 1854)
• Mor Kerstin i Stämmemand-Kinna, Swedish industrialist (died 1852)

Deaths

• 31 March - Johan Peter Falk, botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (born 1733)
• 24 September - Margaretha Donner, business woman (born 1726)
• 4 October - Märta Ljungberg, innkeeper (born 1656)