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Events from the year 1735 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick I

Events

• 17 March - The Freemasonry is introduced to Sweden by Axel Wrede Sparre.^[1]
• 10 May - Kongliga Ritarakademien is created: it is re-founded as the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in 1773.^[2]
• August - Arvid Horn renews the treaty between Sweden and Russia.
• - The Riksdag introduce and amendment to the sumptuary law of clothing from 1731, when all manner of artificial and superfluous decorations within clothing are to be banned: the law results in a fiasco when the members of parliament are themselves attacked by spies wishing to report law breakers, and in practice, the law is ignored until fallen out of use in 1738.^[3]
• - Systema naturae by Carl Linnaeus.
• - Sweden establish a permanent embassy at Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire.
• The Speigelberg Company tour Sweden and is confirmed to have performed in Norrköping this year.

Births

• 2 April - Ulrika Pasch, painter (died 1796)
• 23 September - Clas Bjerkander, meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (died 1795)
• - Anna Hammar-Rosén, publisher (died 1805)

Deaths

• 27 September - Peter Artedi, naturalist (born 1705)
• - Charlotta von Liewen, politically active countess (born 1683)
• - Catharina Bröms, ironmaster (born 1665)

References