1749 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick I

  Events

• - Treaty between Sweden and Denmark.
• - Statistics Sweden
• - Carl Linnaeus conduct his trip to Scania.
• - Street lights are introduced in the capital when every house owner are obliged to place a light of some kind upon their house to light up the street. In practice, however, this instruction is insufficient.
• - The Agricultural revolution, the Great Partition, in which farmers are given united land in individual farms rather than having their land spread in several fields around a village, is initiated in Sweden by Jacob Faggot.
• - A new regulation is issued were the permits of street trade, at the time already one of the most common for destitute city women, is henceforth to be given foremost in favor of women in need of supporting themselves.

  Births

• 2 January - Carl Gustaf Nordin, historian and ecclesiastic
• 28 April - Adolf Fredrik Munck, royal favorite
• - Sofia Lovisa Gråå, educator
• - Ulla von Höpken, courtier

  Deaths

• - Johan August Meijerfeldt, general
• 23 July - Ingeborg i Mjärhult, natural healer, medicine woman, herbalist, natural philosopher, soothsayer and spiritual visionary