1759 in Sweden

Events from the year 1759 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Adolf Frederick

Events

 * 10 September - Battle of Frisches Haff
 * 19 July - The Great Stockholm Fire 1759 reduced about 20 blocks with about 300 houses to ash, and rendered about 2000 persons homeless.
 * - The Royal Swedish Society of Sciences and Letters is founded.
 * - Vinterkväde by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg

Births

 * 2 March - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer  (died 1833)
 * 23 March - Anders Ljungstedt, historian (died 1835)
 * 18 April – Thomas Thorild, poet, critic and philosopher (died 1808)
 * 16 August – Carl Fredric von Breda, painter (died 1818)
 * – Anna Sophia Holmstedt, ballerina (died 1807)
 * - Charlotte Eckerman, opera singer and courtesan (died 1790)
 * Johan Anton Lindqvist, theatre director (died 1833)

Deaths

 * 20 June – Margareta Capsia, painter (born 1682)