1846 in Sweden

Events from the year 1846 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• 28 June: The Church of Sweden Härnösand Cathedral is inaugurated.
• December 22 - The guild system in Sweden is abolished by the Fabriks och Handtwerksordning and Handelsordningen.
• Trade and craft professions are opened to all unmarried women.
• Adolf Eugene von Rosen and Georg Theodor Policron von Chiewitz proposes a regulation of Gamla stan.
• The Swedish History Museum is founded.
• Gothenburg becomes the first Swedish city to be lit up by voal gas.
• Den broderade plÃ¥nboken by August Blanche
• DubbelgÃ¥ngaren av Fjodor Dostojevskij
• Engelbrekt och hans dalkarlar by August Blanche
• Läkaren by August Blanche
• Magister Bläckstadius eller giftermÃ¥ls-annonsen by August Blanche
• Rika morbror by August Blanche
• Syskonbarnen eller Hofgunst och Folkgunst by Karl Kullberg
• Torparen och hans omgifning by Sophie von Knorring

Births

• 26 February – Amanda Forsberg, ballerina
• 16 March – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, mathematician (died 1927)
• 28 April – Johan Oskar Backlund, astronomer (died 1916)
• 5 May – Lars Magnus Ericsson, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (died 1926)
• May - Nanna Hoffman factory owner (died 1920)
• 22 December – Andreas Hallén, composer, conductor and music teacher (died 1925)

Deaths

• 28 January - Sara Wacklin, writer and educator (born 1790)
• 8 April - Augusta von Fersen, courtier (born 1754)
• 2 November – Esaias Tegnér, poet (born 1782)
• 18 December – Emilie Högqvist, actress and royal mistress (born 1812)
• Helena Spinacuta, actor and acrobat (born 1766)

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