1785 in Sweden

Events from the year 1785 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Gustav III

Events

 * - Enskiftet begins in Scania.
 * - The Barber of Seville is played for the first time in Sweden at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm, with Christina Rahm and Kjell Waltman.
 * - Beskrivning om upstaden Örebro by Johan Fredric Bagge
 * - Passionerna by Thomas Thorild

Births

 * 23 January – Carl Adolph Agardh, botanist  (died 1859)
 * February - Anna Sundström, chemist (died 1871)
 * 6 May – Arvid August Afzelius, historian and mythologist (died 1871)
 * 5 October – Lasse-Maja, notorious criminal (died 1845)
 * – Mariana Koskull, royal mistress (died 1841)

Deaths

 * 30 October – Gustaf Filip Creutz, diplomat and poet (born 1731)
 * 16 November – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, chemist and mineralogist (born 1709)
 * - Lovisa von Plat, brothel madam (unknown birthyear)