1849 in Sweden

Events from the year 1849 in Sweden

Background

Unlike the rest of Europe, Sweden wasn’t severely affected by the Revolutions of 1848, as some protests in March fizzled out, and the country spent the rest of 1848 in relative peace.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• 11 May - The Uppsala Student Union was formed at Uppsala University, the first of its kind in Sweden.
• In October of 1849, Swedish writer and reformist Fredrika Bremer travels to the United States and lands in New York City, beginning her two year long journey across the US and Britain.
• The Bourse (Gothenburg) is opened.
• The second of the von Schwerin Estate's Scandals attracts attention.
• The Nya smedjegÃ¥rden in Stockholm is transformed to a women's prison.

Births

• 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

Deaths

• January 4- Louise von Fersen, courtier (born 1777)

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