Gustav III of Sweden
BIRTH
Jan 24, 1746
Stockholm
DEATH
March 29, 1792
Stockholm
FAMILY
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Gustav III of Sweden
(1746-1792)
Gustav III of Sweden (1746–1792) was a King of Sweden. Born in Stockholm, this person held public responsibilities that included Monarch of Sweden. The life ended in Stockholm. The entry is included to connect the individual with the people, institutions, events, and historic places that shaped the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and the era of the American Revolution.
Gustav III of Sweden was born on or about Jan 24, 1746 in Stockholm. The names of the parents are not yet securely established in this database. These family and geographic circumstances formed the earliest setting for a life later associated with King of Sweden. The surviving evidence represented in this record does not always preserve the details of childhood schooling, household routine, religious instruction, apprenticeship, or youthful travel. Where such particulars remain uncertain, they are not reconstructed as fact. Even so, the known birthplace and family connections place this individual within the local, colonial, imperial, Indigenous, or Atlantic communities that shaped opportunity and identity in the eighteenth century. Those early relationships could determine education, inheritance, occupation, marriage prospects, military obligations, religious affiliation, and access to political or commercial networks. Social position also influenced which experiences were documented. Elite households often left correspondence, property records, school accounts, or legal papers, while the childhoods of women, laborers, enslaved people, Indigenous people, and less prominent relatives were more likely to survive only indirectly. Absence of detail should therefore be understood as a limitation of the record, not as evidence that the early years were uneventful or unimportant. Place mattered as well: settlement patterns, nearby ports and roads, denominational institutions, warfare, migration, and kinship networks all affected the choices available to a young person. This early-life summary therefore emphasizes the documented setting and immediate family rather than unsupported anecdotes. It establishes a careful biographical foundation while leaving room for future discoveries from family papers, parish registers, probate files, military documents, and local histories. Together, these facts provide the background necessary for understanding how Gustav III of Sweden entered the adult world described in the Career field and became connected to the people, events, and historic places indexed by HistoryGPS.
Gustav III of Sweden built a career centered on King of Sweden. Contemporary cataloging also identifies the person with work as politician. Recorded offices and formal responsibilities included Monarch of Sweden. Institutional or organizational associations included Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Within HistoryGPS, the career is significant because it links personal activity to the larger imperial, revolutionary, diplomatic, intellectual, and social history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.













