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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 [1] and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.
Dec 31, 2022 · Gustav III had been warned about the assassination plot, but chose to attend the masked ball out of defiance. There he was shot, dying 13 days later (Frichit / Public Domain) Anckarstrom was ready for him, however, striking when the king was walking down the corridor.
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Dec 24, 2023 · Gustav III spent the evening having a nice dinner at the opera and looked down on the party participants who, like himself, were dressed in different masks. The dinner was held in a room on the upper floor of the opera house and the hall room where the ball was being held.
On March 16, 1792, 46-year-old King Gustav III of Sweden was shot at a masked ball at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm, Sweden. He died thirteen days later. Giuseppe Verdi’s 1859 opera Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) is based on King Gustav III’s assassination and death.
But the Swedish nobility remained implacably opposed to him, and an aristocratic conspiracy succeeded when Gustav was shot by Captain Jacob Johan Anckarström while attending the Stockholm opera house on March 16, 1792; the king died two weeks later.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 12, 2018 · 16 March 1792 was King Gustav III's last day at Haga. The previous evening, he had invited a small group to supper in the Pavilion during which discussions turned to the attempted assassination of King Joseph I of Portugal in 1758.
That Fatal Shot. A very short story about the murder of King Gustav III. “The purpose of the scrap in the shot was to make it more lethal”, Anckarström said. He had already confessed to the...
