1747 in Sweden

Events from the year 1747 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick I

Events

 * May - Alliance between Sweden and France; Sweden is to receive subsidies.
 * May - Defense alliance between Sweden and Prussia.
 * 5 December – Carl Gustaf Tessin President of the Riksdag.
 * - The government of the Hats (party) has the physician of the monarch, A. Blackwell, executed for treason.
 * - Pehr Kalm travel to North America.
 * The Vadstena adliga jungfrustift begin its activity.

Births

 * 26 March - Elis Schröderheim, politician (died 1795)
 * - Adolf Ludvig Hamilton, politician, memoir writer (died 1802)
 * 24 February - Ulla von Liewen, royal lover (died 1775)
 * - Maria Aurora Uggla, royal favorite (died 1826)
 * - Margareta Seuerling, actress (died 1820)
 * 25 July - Johanna Lohm, educator (died 1834)
 * Carl Johan Ingman, spy (died 1813)

Deaths

 * 19 June – Jakob Benzelius, archbishop (born 1683)
 * 8 August - Mårten Triewald, engineer and physicist (born 1691)