Prince Carl Gustav, Duke of Småland

Drottningholm Palace, 25 Aug 1782 – Stockholm, 23 Mar 1783

8 facts3 sources

Facts and their sources

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

In Europe1772–1795

Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves in three steps until, in 1795, it vanished from the map for 123 years.

What it cost

Rising cost of rye relative to wages

Between 1770 and 1784, the price of rye was 31 percent higher relative to the wages of day-workers compared to the period of 1735 to 1744.

Around the world1783

The Montgolfier brothers’ hot-air balloon carried the first people aloft, over Paris.