Events from the year 1801 in Sweden
Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf
- The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is occupied by Great Britain.
- Carl Gustaf af Leopold publishes the Afhandling om svenska stafsättet
- Foundation of the Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm, the only theater accept the Royal Dramatic Theater allowed in the capital during the royal theater monopoly.
22 January – Lars Johan Hierta, newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician (died 1872)
1 February - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (died 1878)
24 March - Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (died 1)
17 May - Lovisa Åhrberg, herbalist doctor (died 1881)
21 May - Princess Sophie of Sweden, princess (died 1865)
26 July – Maria Röhl, portrait artist (died 1875)
14 August - Fredrika Bremer, writer (died 1865)
22 October - Carl Jacob Sundevall, zoologist (died 1875)
18 December – Ulrik Torsslow, actor (died 1881)
– Brita Sofia Hesselius, photographer (died 1866)
9 May – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (died 1873)
- Ulrica Arfvidsson, fortune teller (born 1734)
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