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1858 in Sweden

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1858 in Sweden

Events from the year 1858 in Sweden

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Oscar I

    • Events

  • - The Conventicle Act (Sweden) is removed and the free churches are legalized.
  • - Establishment of the Geological Survey of Sweden
  • - Gothenburg Central Station is inaugurated.
  • - Statistics Sweden is created.
  • - Inauguration of Vänortsparken
  • - Legal majority for unmarried women (if applied for; automatic legal majority in 1863).
  • - Louise Flodin starts her own news paper in Arboga, staffed exclusively by women.
  • - The formal right of an employer to physically discipline their adult servants is abolished.

    • Births

  • 28 February - Tore Svennberg, actor (died 1941)
  • 20 November - Selma Lagerlöf, writer (died 1940)
  • - Kata Dalström, political agitator (died 1923)
  • - Alina Jägerstedt, union worker (died 1919)
  • - Ebba Bernadotte, philanthropist and morganatic consort (died 1926)

    • Deaths

  • 15 October - Karl Gustaf Mosander, chemist (born 1797)
  • - Ulla Stenberg, artist (born 1792)

    • References

    1858 in Sweden Wikipedia
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