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Gustav III, konung av Sverige

Parents

Father: Adolf I Fredrik, konung av Sverige * 14.05.1710 Descendant of Charlemagne

Mother: Luise Ulrike, Prinzessin von Preussen * 24.07.1720 Descendant of Charlemagne

Marriages

Estocolmo 04.11.1766
Sofie Magdalena, prinsesse til Danmark * 03.07.1746 Descendant of Charlemagne

Children

Gustav IV Adolf, konung av Sverige * 01.11.1778 Friederike Dorothea Wilhelmine, Prinzessin von Baden
Karl Gustav, Herzog von Smaland * 25.08.1782

Titles

Chronology

21.08.1772
King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing him as an enlightened despot.
16.03.1792
King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
29.03.1792
King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.