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Gustav III (24 January [O.S. 13 January] 1746 – 29 March 1792), [a] [1] also called Gustavus III, [2] 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.
The Obelisk at Slottsbacken, as seen in July 2020, after its reconstruction. The Obelisk at Slottsbacken is an obelisk monument adjacent to the Royal Palace on Slottsbacken in Old Town, Stockholm, Sweden and is considered to be the very centre point of the Swedish capital city.
With its 100,000 graves, the cemetery is the largest in the country, in terms of the number of graves, and the second largest (after Kviberg's cemetery) in terms of area. [5] Skogskyrkogården is connected to a metro station by the same name (see Skogskyrkogården metro station).
Gustav of Sweden - English (actually Latin) also: Gustavus ; Swedish (legal spellings after 1900): Gustaf - may refer to: Gustav Vasa, Gustav I, King of Sweden 1523-1560; Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Gustav II Adolph, King of Sweden 1611-1632; Gustav III of Sweden, King of Sweden 1771-1792; Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden 1792-1809
Unknown to party leaders, Gustav had renewed the Swedish alliance with France and had received solemn assurances of assistance from Louis XV of France if Gustav were to reestablish monarchical rule in Sweden. Moreover, France agreed to pay its outstanding subsidies to Sweden, amounting to 1.5 million livres annually, beginning from January 1772.
Gustave III may refer to: People. King Gustav III of Sweden; Operas. Daniel Auber's opera, Gustave III (Auber) with a libretto by Eugène Scribe, 1833;
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The Revolution of 1772, also known as The Bloodless Revolution (Swedish: Revolutionen) or the Coup of Gustav III (Gustav III:s statskupp or older Gustav III:s statsvälvning), was a Swedish coup d'état performed by King Gustav III of Sweden on 19 August 1772 to introduce a division of power between the king and the Riksdag of the Estates, resulting in the end of the Age of Liberty and the ...