1851 in Sweden

Events from the year 1851 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• 11 June - The radical author Carl Jonas Love Almqvist fled to USA.
• - The hospital Ersta diakoni is built in Stockholm by Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess) as the leader of the first deaconesses in Sweden.
• - Inauguration of the Södra Teatern in Stockholm.
• September 30 – HSwMS Eugenie leaves from Karlskrona, Sweden to begin its voyage as the first Swedish Royal Navy vessel to circumnavigate the world.

Births

• 16 April – Ernst Josephson, painter (died 1906)
• 10 August – Frigga Carlberg, suffragette (died 1925)
• 13 October – Knut Beckeman, architect (died 1943)
• 4 November – Märta Eketrä, courtier and royal favorite (died 1894)

Deaths

• 22 March - Göran Wahlenberg, naturalist (born 1780)
• - Gustafva Björklund, cookery book-author and restaurant owner (born 1794)
• - Johanna HÃ¥rd, pirate (born 1789)
• - Gustafva Lindskog, athlete (born 1794)
• - Anna Maria Thalén, Swedish fashion trader (born 1781)

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