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Gustav III (24 January [O.S. 13 January] 1746 – 29 March 1792), note on dates also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.
Gustav III (born Jan. 24, 1746, Stockholm, Swed.—died March 29, 1792, Stockholm) was the king of Sweden (1771–92), who reasserted the royal power over the Riksdag (parliament). Gustav, the eldest son of King Adolf Fredrik, was an intelligent and cultured advocate of the Enlightenment.
Gustav IV (ruled 1792–1809), unlike his father, Gustav III, was pious and superstitious. He considered events in France to be insults to moral order. A deep aversion toward the revolutionaries and toward Napoleon characterized his foreign policy.
Gustav III of Sweden (1746-92) is one of the least studied of the later eighteenth-century rulers known as the Enlightened Despots. He was not a great general like Frederick II of Prussia or a great empire-builder like Catherine II of Russia, nor did he labour tirelessly to rationalise the administration of a conglomeration of disparate ...
Dec 31, 2022 · Murder in a Mask: the Assassination of King Gustav III. by Kurt Readman December 31, 2022. 0. Gustav III was born in January 1746 but his life was cut short in 1792 when he had been on the throne of Sweden for 21 years. His reign started in 1771 after succeeding Adolf Frederick of Sweden who was the uncle of Catherine the Great.
Gustav III ( 24 January [ O.S. 13 January] 1746 – 29 March 1792), note on dates also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.
Dec 24, 2023 · The murder of Gustav III is one of the most famous events in Swedish history. Several books and articles have been written. The murder is so talked about and shrouded in legend that the composer Guiseppe Verdi made an opera about it, The Masquerade Ball, although he had to move the action to another time because the subject was so sensitive.
