1746 in Sweden

Events from the year 1746 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick I

Events

 * - A new sumptuary law bans the use of hooped skirts wider than 4.5 ells.
 * 9 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin succeed Carl Gyllenborg as Privy Council Chancellery.
 * - Eva Ekeblad present the result of how to make flour and alcohol out of potatoes to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Births

 * 24 January – Gustav III of Sweden, monarch (died 1792)
 * January 31 - Pehr Hörberg, artist, painter and musician (died 1816)
 * 24 February – Uno von Troil, Archbishop of Uppsala (died 1803)
 * 14 December - Julie Alix de la Fay, ballerina (died 1826)
 * - Andreas Berlin, naturalist (died 1773)
 * - Peter Jacob Hjelm, chemist and the first person to isolate the element molybdenum (died 1813)
 * - Ulrika Fredrika Bremer, shipowner (died 1798)
 * - Eric Ruuth, Governor-General of Swedish Pomerania (died 1820)
 * - Lovisa Simson, theater director (died 1808)
 * Hedda Piper, courtier (died 1812)

Deaths

 * 9 December – Carl Gyllenborg, politician (born 1679)
 * 9 December – Carl Gyllenborg, politician (born 1679)
 * 9 December – Carl Gyllenborg, politician (born 1679)
 * 9 December – Carl Gyllenborg, politician (born 1679)