1720 in Sweden

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The Battle of Grengam, 1720 by Ferdinand Victor Perrot.

Events from the year 1720 in Sweden

Events

• February 29 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden resigns to let her husband Frederick I take over as king of Sweden. She had desired a joint rule, in a similar manner to William and Mary in Britain, but as the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates refuses this, she abdicates in her husband's favour instead.
• March 24 – The Riksdag of the Estates elects Frederick I new King of Sweden.
• 22 April – Arvid Horn elected president of the Privy Council Chancellery.
• 2 May - A new constitution is passed were the government power passes from the monarch to the council.
• 3 May - Coronation of Frederick I.
• 3 July - Peace between Sweden and Denmark in the Treaty of Frederiksborg.
• 27 July - Battle of Grengam
• 27 July - The first national guild regulation is introduced, which replaces all the local guild regulations and is in place until the abolition of the guild system in 1846.
• - Kurbits
• - A new sumptuary law banns the use of silk clothing for servants (the law is reversed in 1739).

Births

• January - Charlotta Löfgren, poet (died 1784)
• 30 January - Charles De Geer, etymologist
• 27 May - Catharina Ebba Horn, royal mistress
• 12 June - Sven Rinman, chemist
• 8 August - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, politician
• 18 November - Per Abraham Örnsköld, governor
• - Karin Olofsdotter, religious leader
• - Margareta Stafhell, chalcography artist

Deaths

• 24 March - Johan Peringskiöld, antiquarian (born 1654)
• 27 May - Catherine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1661–1720), princess (born 1661)

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