1850 in Sweden

Events from the year 1850 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• 19 June – The wedding between Crown Prince Charles and Louise of the Netherlands.
• 30 July - First issue of Hallandsposten.
• - Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad is founded.
• - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden is established in Sweden.
• - The harpist Pauline Åhman becomes the first female instrumentalist employed at the Royal Swedish Chapel orchestra Kungliga Hovkapellet.

Births

• 17 February – Ann-Margret Holmgren, author, feminist and pacifist (died 1940)
• 6 March – Victoria Benedictsson, writer (died 1888)
• 23 April - Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist (died 1920)
• 12 November - Calla Curman, host of a literary salon (died 1935)

Deaths

• 15 February – Elisabeth Forsselius, actress (born 1771)
• 13 May – Erik Jansson, leader of a Swedish pietist sect that emigrated to the United States in 1846 (born 1808)
• - Anna Carlström, innkeeper and brothel madam (born 1780)

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