Events from the year 1785 in Sweden
Incumbents
Monarch – Gustav III
Events
- Enskiftet begins in Scania. - The Barber of Seville is played for the first time in Sweden at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm, with Christina Rahm and Kjell Waltman. - by Johan Fredric Bagge - Passionerna by Thomas Thorild
Births
23 January – Carl Adolph Agardh, botanist (died 1859) February - Anna Sundström, chemist (died 1871) 6 May – Arvid August Afzelius, historian and mythologist (died 1871) 5 October – Lasse-Maja, notorious criminal (died 1845) – Mariana Koskull, royal mistress (died 1841)
Deaths
30 October – Gustaf Filip Creutz, diplomat and poet (born 1731) 16 November – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, chemist and mineralogist (born 1709) - Lovisa von Plat, brothel madam (unknown birthyear)