1815 in Sweden

Events from the year 1815 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XIII

Events

• 23 October - Swedish Pomerania ceded to Prussia.
• - Inauguration of the Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola in Gothenburg, a school founded to educate women to self-supporting professionals and the third to offer serious education to women.
• - Sophie Daguin and André Isidore Carey are recruited to the Royal Swedish Ballet.

Births

• 16 January – Uno Troili, painter (died 1875)
• 10 May – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler (died 1896)
• 17 June – Thekla Knös, writer (died 1880)
• 18 December – Egron Lundgren, watercolor painter (died 1875)
• - Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess), (died 1892)
• - Emilie Risberg, educator and writer (died 1890)
• - Lotten Wennberg, philanthropist (died 1864)

Deaths

• 28 May – Charlotta Cedercreutz, artist (born 1736)
• 10 August - Birger Martin Hall, botanist (born 1741)

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