Events from the year 1785 in Sweden

• Monarch – Gustav III

• - Enskiftet begins in Scania.
• - The Barber of Seville is played for the first time in Sweden at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm, with Christina Rahm and Kjell Waltman.^[1]
• - Beskrivning om upstaden Örebro by Johan Fredric Bagge
• - Passionerna by Thomas Thorild

• 23 January – Carl Adolph Agardh, botanist (died 1859)
• February - Anna Sundström, chemist (died 1871)
• 6 May – Arvid August Afzelius, historian and mythologist (died 1871)
• 5 October – Lasse-Maja, notorious criminal (died 1845)
• – Mariana Koskull, royal mistress (died 1841)

• 30 October – Gustaf Filip Creutz, diplomat and poet (born 1731)
• 16 November – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, chemist and mineralogist (born 1709)
• - Lovisa von Plat, brothel madam (unknown birthyear)