1782 in Sweden

• Monarch – Gustav III

• 27 May - Jewish immigration to Sweden is legalized.
• 19 September - Inauguration of the new building of the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm.
• 30 September - The Royal Swedish Opera relocates from Bollhuset to a new modern opera house, which is inaugurated with Cora och Alonzo by Johann Gottlieb Naumann.Johannes Svanberg (1917-1918). Kungl. teatrarne under ett halft sekel 1860-1910: personalhistoriska anteckningar. Stockholm: Nordisk familjebok. Sid. 9. Libris 287664
• - A Catholic church is opened in Stockholm.
• - Hydrogen cyanide discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
• - Elisabeth Olin inducted to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
• - Elsa Fougt becomes the manager of the Royal printing press.

• 6 February - Gertrud Ahlgren, cunning woman and natural healer (died 1874)
• 8 February - Malla Silfverstolpe, salonnière (died 1861)
• 13 May – Johan Gustaf Sandberg, painter (died 1854)
• 13 November - Esaias Tegnér, poet (died 1846)

• 13 May – Daniel Solander, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus, (born 1733)
• 16 July - Queen Dowager Louisa Ulrika, queen dowager (born 1720)
• - Elisabeth Christina von Linné, scientist (born 1743)

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