In the south of Norway near the boundary to Bohuslän, lies Fredrikstens fortress.At the Swedish siege in the year 1718 in November, the king Karl XII was shoot to death. The Great power time was over, dictatorship is finished. Carl von Linné is 11 years old. The year after it´s decided about a new government shape, that guarantees the states liberty.We are getting different political batches, hats and caps, and increased freedom of speech. The rapprochement against the parliamentarianism has slowly a beginning. Within the higher states takes ideological discussions speed.

Questions adjust and divide, but runs the development. The bunch boundaries become diffuse. The future points against independence. Individual, as well as national. In thought, as well as in document.Big liberty from religious and political authorities. The requirements on partipation increases.The first staggerring stages against democracy are taken. The development is not isolated swedish. The French revolutionen and the American freedom war carries testemony about it. Montesquieus power division faith, the French philosophers Voltaires and Rosseaus thoughts,has a big influense on the vest world. Information time are in!

Information gives light to thoughts as well as rooms. Windows become bigger (Kosta glassworks is found and produces bottles and window platens), façade become smooth and the tile stove is a revolution the accommodation conditions dramatic.

1800th-century prioritizes the good before the power, the economy before the prestige, the private life before the career, the scientific before the war art. Knowledge are more important and reliable than prayers and the life on the earth more important than the continuation in the sky. French culture becomes normative.

Music, theatre, art, literature. The heavy baroque is abandoned for the easy, graceful rococo. England became a model for constitution, trade and industri(manufactory). Merkantilism and industry is the successful future. How can we use our natural assets? What can we interest the surrounding world for? How can we produce? Utilism (=utilitarism) is the keyword. That means that benefit are highest for all human acting.

The swedish potatoe apostle, Jonas Alströmer, introduces machine knitting of socks.This employs approximately 14.000 workers, concurrent that we´re during the century's last half only had in round figures 3O district medical officers.Our population comprizes 2 millions people. The Swedish Ostindiska Kompaniet is based 1731 and does 300 trade travels to in front Kanton.

We purchase dyestuffs, silks, tea, coffee, spices, porcelain - luxury products that set additional spice on the life.Sweden's export comprizes mainliest irons, steels and coppers. Chinese culture inspires.

Queen Lovisa Ulrika gets China castle in Drottningholmspark as a birthday present. And you can find Chinese porcelain and redvarnished furniture even out in the countryside.

However, the important thing is that our economy is in bottom. Cousts and border district got trace of the great power time war. Crop failure years and epidemies are a pain to us. The countryside population constitutes 90% and lives without modern methods for the farmsin the still unshifted cultivated landscape.How is it with reading and writing?

The university graduates use latine as languages, which bars the big part of the population. The intellectual queen Lovisa Ulrika, who collects many genius around her, asserts that you will express yourself in the Swedish language. Royal Swedish scienceacademi is formed and Olof von Dahlin is given out “Svea rikes historia”. That as originates from their pens is given out on Swedish. It is a faith on Sweden's future.The new science of nature wants to help us to solve practical problems and open our eyes for knowledge about the nature.

Think about Christoffer Polhem and his genius working saving machines. Or Emanuel Swedenborgs knowledge about iron handling.Utilisten Anders Berch that shows how our daily life with the land, at home and on the work can be rationalized.New elements are detected of the pharmacist Carl Scheele in Köping and the thermometer became perfect by Anders celsius.

The astronome Per Wargentin ensures that we become the first country to begin with population statistic.And so we have Carl Linnaeus, the curious and the impatient priest son from Stenbrohult,as will perpetuate our Swedish 1800-th century.

Let us try to look into this world!