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1834 In Sweden
Events from the year 1834 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * The famous coffee house ''Tysta Mari'' is opened in Stockholm. * - First issue of the paper ''Västerviks-Tidningen'' * - ''Drottningens juvelsmycke'' by Carl Jonas Love Almquist. * - '' Presidentens döttrar'' by Fredrika Bremer. Births * 13 February - Alfred Wahlberg, painter (died 1906) * 23 April - Adolf Hedin, publisher, and politician (died 1905) * 1 March - Hildegard Werner, musical conductor and a journalist (died 1911) * Ottilia Littmarck, actress (died 1929) Deaths * 16 June - Giovanna Bassi, ballerina (born 1762) * - Johanna Lohm, educator (born 1747) * - Charlotta Aurora De Geer, courtier (born 1779) * - Ulrika Melin, artist (born 1767) * - Margaretha Heijkenskjöld, traveler and dress reformer (born 1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
042-Isak Berg
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911 In The United Kingdom
Events from the year 1911 in the United Kingdom. This year saw the coronation of King George V. 1911 was also a census year. Incumbents * Monarch – George V * Prime Minister – H. H. Asquith ( Liberal) * Parliament – 30th (starting 31 January) Events * 3 January – in London, in what becomes known as the Siege of Sidney Street, the Metropolitan Police and the Scots Guards engage in a shootout with a criminal gang of Latvian anarchists holed up in a building in the East End. The Home Secretary, Winston Churchill, attends in person. * March–April – eleven thousand workers at the Singer Manufacturing Co. sewing machine factory on Clydebank in Scotland go on strike in solidarity with twelve female colleagues protesting against work process reorganisation. Four hundred alleged ringleaders are dismissed. * 2 April – the 1911 census is taken. One out of every seven employed persons is a domestic servant. Suffragette Emily Davison hides in a cupboard in the cryp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1834 In Sweden
Events from the year 1834 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * The famous coffee house ''Tysta Mari'' is opened in Stockholm. * - First issue of the paper ''Västerviks-Tidningen'' * - ''Drottningens juvelsmycke'' by Carl Jonas Love Almquist. * - '' Presidentens döttrar'' by Fredrika Bremer. Births * 13 February - Alfred Wahlberg, painter (died 1906) * 23 April - Adolf Hedin, publisher, and politician (died 1905) * 1 March - Hildegard Werner, musical conductor and a journalist (died 1911) * Ottilia Littmarck, actress (died 1929) Deaths * 16 June - Giovanna Bassi, ballerina (born 1762) * - Johanna Lohm, educator (born 1747) * - Charlotta Aurora De Geer, courtier (born 1779) * - Ulrika Melin, artist (born 1767) * - Margaretha Heijkenskjöld, traveler and dress reformer (born 1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1781 In Sweden
Events from the year 1781 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * * 24 January - Tolerance Act (Sweden) * * * * - The French Theater of Gustav III is composed and inaugurated. * * - ''Min son på galejan'' by Jacob Wallenberg. * - '' Passionerna'' by Thomas Thorild. Births * * February 19 - Adolf Zethelius, silversmith, industrialist (died 1864 Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster (" Oh! Susanna", " Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song ...) * 19 August - Margaretha Heijkenskjöld, traveler and dress reformer (died 1834 in Sweden, 1834) * * 26 September – Carl Fredrik af Wingård, politician and Lutheran clergyman (died 1851 in Sweden, 1851) * * - Anna Maria Thalén, Swedish fashion trader (died 1851 in Sweden, 1851) Deaths * * * * 21 December - Johan Henrik Scheffel, artist (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretha Heijkenskjöld
Margaretha Charlotta Heijkensköld (19 August 1781 – 29 July 1834, Remla, Syria), was a Swedish traveler and a dress reformer. She attracted a lot of attention from her contemporaries by her journeys. Margaretha Heijkensköld was the daughter of the noble Councillor Detlof Heijkensköld the Younger (1751–1824) and Lovisa Ulrica Victorin (1756-1825). Late in life, she inherited a fortune, which she used to finance her interest in foreign travel and the study of foreign culture. She was described as an independent person with a great ability to adapt. She never married, and the fact that she traveled, and traveled alone, in a period when women seldom did the first and never the second, drew a lot of attention. She visited Paris, Vienna and Italy before she traveled in the Middle East. She died in Romla in Syria after a visit in Jerusalem. Notes and drawings from her travels are preserved. In 1816 Margaretha Heijkenskjöld introduced a new Folk costume A folk costume (als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1767 In Sweden
Events from the year 1767 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * - All spinning for both household needs as well as for selling is freely permitted in all Sweden.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013 * - ''Tankar i anledning af Sista Öfwerflöds-Förordningen Och Dess wärkställighet; Fattade i pennan, och Dedicerade til MALCONTENTERNE, Af En Fri Svensk'', by Françoise Marguerite Janiçon Births * January - Catharina Ulrika Hjort af Ornäs, murder victim (died 1837) * 16 January - Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802 (died 1813) * 1 February – Ulrika Melin, textile artist (died 1834) * * * * 10 December - Conrad Quensel, naturalist (died 1806) * 10 December - Fredrik Gyllenborg, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1829) Deaths * * * 9 May - Jean Fredman, role model of the ''Songs of Fredman'' (born 1712) * * Lisbetta Isacsdotter, religious leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrika Melin
Ulrika Melin (1767–1834) was a Swedish textile artist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. She was born to Major Lars Melin and was a sister of General Major Henrik Georg Melin. She was married to the governor of Västerås Castle, Peter Thure Gerhard Drufva, in 1788. Melin was a textile artist with "an unusual ability to sew landskapes".Anteckningar om svenska qvinno In 1784, she was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts for a work in white sateen inspired by the work of Claude Lorrain Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque Painting, Baroque era. He spent most .... See also * Wendela Gustafva Sparre * Maria Johanna Görtz References Further reading * External links Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor * Dahlberg och Hagström: ''Svenskt konstlexikon''. Allhems Förlag (1953) M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1779 In Sweden
Events from the year 1779 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav III Events * Carl Wilhelm Scheele creates Glycerol. * The first theater in Gothenburg, ''Comediehuset'', is inaugurated.Wilhelm Berg: Anteckningar om Göteborgs äldre teatrar / Band 2. 1794-1816 (1896-1900) Births * 26 July - Erik Gustaf Göthe, sculptor (died 1838) * 20 August - Jöns Jacob Berzelius, chemist (died 1848) * 15 October - Johan Olof Wallin, orator, poet and archbishop (died 1839) * Charlotta Aurora De Geer, salonist (died 1834) * 16 December – Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe, court official (died 1858) * Peter Westerstrøm, mass murderer (died 1809) Deaths * 16 November - Pehr Kalm, explorer (born 1716) * Henrika Juliana von Liewen, salonist (born 1709) * Jean François Beylon, courtier (born 1717 Events January–March * January 1 – Count Carl Gyllenborg, the Swedish ambassador to the Kingdom of Great Britain, is arrested in London over a plot to assist the Pretender to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotta Aurora De Geer
Charlotta Aurora De Geer later ''Gyldenstolpe'' and ''Wetterstedt'' (1779–1834), was a politically influential Swedish countess, salonist and courtier. Life Courtier Born to the royal court chamberlain baron Johan Jakob De Geer af Finspång and Fredrika Aurora Taube. She served as ''hovfröken'' to Princess Charlotte until her marriage in 1796; ''statsfru'' to the queen, Frederica of Baden, in 1800-1809, and ''överhovmästarinna'' to queen dowager Charlotte in 1818. During her tenure as courtier of Frederica, she appears to have been somewhat favored: she was one of the two ladies-in-waiting chosen to accompany the queen to Finland in 1802 (with countess Christina Frölich) and to Germany in 1803-05 (with countess Caroline Oxenstierna). Salonist On 12 April 1796 in Stockholm Castle she married her relative, Major General and governor Count Nils Gyldenstolpe. She divorced in 1810, and married the politician count Gustaf af Wetterstedt in 1811. Charlotta Aurora De Geer was de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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.Oscar Fredrik Strokirk: Kultur- och personhistoriska anteckningar / Första delen 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, archbisho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Lohm
''Johanna'' Juliana Josefa Lohm née ''Pechlin von Löwenbach'' (25 July 1747 – 8 February 1834) was a Swedish Baroness and educator. She was the founder and principal of a Girls' School in Stockholm which was active for about fifty years, until her death, and long counted as the most fashionable of its kind during the reign of Gustav III of Sweden. Life Lohm was the daughter of Baron Johann von Pechlin Edler von Löwenbach (from 1743 Pechlin von Löwenbach), the minister of Holstein in Stockholm, and the sister of General Carl Fredrik Pechlin. She married a Lieutenant Colonel Carl Johan Lohm. After the death of her spouse and the fall of her brother, she was destitute and forced to support herself and her daughter. Having what was described as a brilliant education herself, a reputation for great learning, and a wide net of contacts in high society, she founded a pension or a finishing school for girls from the upper classes in Stockholm. For about fifteen years, this was rega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1762 In Sweden
Events from the year 1762 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Adolf Frederick Events * * * * 22 May - Treaty of Hamburg (1762). Peace between Sweden and Prussia with the mediation of the Queen of Sweden, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia.Jägerskiöld, Olof (1945). Lovisa Ulrika. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand. Libris 8074766 * 25 August – The first Drottningholm Palace Theatre burns down. * * Elisabeth Christina von Linné publishes her discovery of the ''Tropaeolum majus''. * ''Menniskans elände'', by Gustaf Fredrik Gyllenborg Births * * * 7 October - Fabian von Fersen (1762–1818), official and courtier (died 1818) * * - Christina Fredenheim, vocalist (died 1841 Events January–March * January 20 – Charles Elliot of the United Kingdom, and Qishan of the Qing dynasty, agree to the Convention of Chuenpi. * January 26 – Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the i ...) Deaths * * * * * * * * - Charles Langloi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
