1743 in Sweden

Events from the year 1743 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick I

Events

 * March - The peasant estate in the Riksdag of the Estates support Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark before Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, as candidate to the post of heir to the Swedish throne.
 * May - Three of the four estates in the Riksdag of the Estates: the nobility, the clergy and the burghers, offers to support the Russian candidate as heir to the Swedish throne in exchange for favorable peace terms with Russia.
 * 11 June - Dalecarlian Rebellion (1743). A rebel army of peasants march toward Stockholm to prevent the election of Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp as heir to the Swedish throne and punish those responsible for the war.
 * 16 June - Preliminary peace between Sweden and Russia.
 * 22 June - The rebel army reach Stockholm, where they are dispersed by the military.
 * 23 June - Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp, the candidate of Empress Elizabeth I of Russia, is elected heir to the Swedish throne.
 * July - Execution of Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock.
 * 7 August - Treaty of Åbo.
 * September – Denmark-Norway threatens to declare war because their candidate, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark, was not chosen as heir to the Swedish throne, which result in Sweden having to accept a Russian protective force in Sweden.
 * - Den sörgande Turtur-dufvan by Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht.
 * - Elisabeth Christina von Linné publishes her discovery of the Tropaeolum majus.

Births

 * 1 February - Johan Christopher Toll, soldier (died 1817)
 * April 17 - Johan Törnström, sculptor (died 1828)
 * 11 November - Carl Peter Thunberg, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (died 1828)
 * 15 December - Eva Helena Löwen, socialite, agent and royal favorite (died 1813)
 * 11 November - Carl Peter Thunberg, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus (died 1828)
 * 15 December - Eva Helena Löwen, socialite, agent and royal favorite (died 1813)
 * 15 December - Eva Helena Löwen, socialite, agent and royal favorite (died 1813)

Deaths

 * July - Execution of Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock, Lieutenant General (born 1685)
 * 22 march - Emerentia von Düben, royal favorite (born 1669)
 * 23 September - Erik Benzelius the younger, theologian (born 1675)
 * 20 October - Michael Dahl, painter (born 1659)
 * 20 October - Michael Dahl, painter (born 1659)