1849 in Sweden

Updated on Jan 12, 2024

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Events from the year 1849 in Sweden

Incumbents

Monarch – Oscar I

11 May - Uppsala Student Union

- Fredrika Bremer travels to USA.

- Bourse (Gothenburg)

- Nya smedjegården is transformed to a women's prison.

13 January - Alfhild Agrell, writer and playwright (died 1923)

22 January – August Strindberg, writer and playwright (died 1912)

14 December - Wilhelmina Skogh, business person (died 1926)

25 May - Louise Hammarström, chemist (died 1917)

31 May - Carl Fredrik Hill, painter (died 1911)

22 September – Olena Falkman, concert vocalist (died 1928)

1 October – Anne Charlotte Leffler, writer and playwright (died 1892)

7 October - Martina Bergman-Österberg, physical education instructor and women's suffrage advocate (died 1915)

17 October – Johan Ericson

6 December – Maria Adelborg

11 December – Ellen Key, writer (died 1926)

31 December – Birger Eek

Louise von Fersen, courtier (born 1777)

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