1792 in Sweden

Anckaströms mask, knife and pistol

The decorations at the funeral

Events from the year 1792 in Sweden

• Monarch – Gustav III then Gustav IV Adolf

• January - King Gustav III summon the Riksdag of the Estates to Gävle.

• February - The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved.

• 16 March - Assassination of Gustav III: Gustav III of Sweden is assassinated by Jakob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

• 29 March - Gustav III dies and is succeeded by his minor son, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, under the guardianship of his uncle, Duke Charles.

• The Funeral of Gustav III

• 27 April – Jakob Johan Anckarström is executed for regicide in Stockholm.

• July - Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm becomes a member of the guardian government and the de facto regent of Sweden.

• 20 December – The Marriage of Figaro is given for the first time in Sweden at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm with Didrik Gabriel Björn and Eleonora Säfström.

• The French Theater of Gustav III is dissolved.

• Om det allmänna förståndets frihet by Thomas Thorild.

• Thomas Thorild is exiled for revolutionary ideas.

• Foundation of the Nationalmuseum.

• Foundation of the school of Johanna Lohm.

• 12 January – Johan August Arfwedson, chemist

• 23 March – Carl Georg Brunius, art historian, archaeologist and architect (died 1869)

• 16 April – Ulla Stenberg, artist (died 1858)

• 24 July – Hedda Wrangel, composer (died 1833)

• 28 August – Karolina Bock, actress (died 1872)

• 18 September – Johan Fredrik Ernst von Vegesack, military officer

• Date unknown – Halta-Kajsa, tradition bearer (died 1857)

• 29 March – Gustav III of Sweden, monarch (born 1746)

• 27 April – Jacob Johan Anckarström, military officer and assassin of Gustav III

• 8 November – Hedvig Eleonora von Fersen, courtier (born 1753)

• 15 December – Joseph Martin Kraus, composer (born 1756)