Events from the year 1786 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Gustav III
Events 5 April - The Royal Swedish Academy is founded. 1 May – King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Stockholm. 23 June - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved. 23 October - Charter rights are given to Östersund. 31 October - Foundation of the Swedish West India Company Date unknown- The first school to give higher education to female students, the Societetsskolan, is founded in Gothenburg. Date unknown - Maria Christina Bruhn becomes the first woman to be given a patent as an inventor in Sweden. Date unknown - The first hot air balloons are released in Sweden by the popular acrobat Antonio Bartolomeo Spinacuta.Flodmark, Johan: Stenborgska skådebanorna. Bidrag till Stockholms teaterhistoria. Stockholm. Norstedt & söner.
Births 19 January – Carl Gustaf Kröningssvärd, lawyer and historian (died 1859) 13 May - Anna Ehrenström, poet (died 1857) 8 August - Bengt Erland Fogelberg, sculptor (died 1854) 18 September – Leonhard Fredrik Rääf, folklorist, local historian and conservative politician (died 1872) Helena Charlotta Åkerhielm, dramatist and translator (died 1828)
Deaths 18 March – Gustaf Lundberg, painter (born 1695) 11 May - Anna Sofia Ramström, courtier (born 1738) 15 May - Eva Ekeblad, scientist (born 1724) 21 May – Carl Wilhelm Scheele, pharmaceutical chemist (born 1745) 22 May – Carl Fredrik Mennander, bishop (born 1712)
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