1854 in Sweden

Events from the year 1854 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• The Telegraph connection is established between Stockholm and Gothenburg.
• The first Train station.
• The free church of Anna Johansdotter Norbäck is separated from the state church.
• Founding of the Fruntimmersällskapet för fÃ¥ngars förbättring.
• November - Muteupproret.

Births

• 12 January - Hugo Birger, painter (died 1887)
• 3 September – Anna Sandström, reform educator (died 1931)
• 8 November – Johannes Rydberg, physicist (died 1919)
• 14 November - Dina Edling, opera singer (died 1935)
• 27 November - Gerhard Louis De Geer, Prime Minister of Sweden from 1920 to 1921 (died 1935)

Deaths

• 13 March - Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, prince (born 1852)
• 20 March - Anna Leonore König, singer (born 1771)
• 27 May - Stor-Stina, Sami (born 1819)
• Lisa Erlandsdotter, artist (born 1774)
• Vilhelm Pettersson, ballet dancer (born 1814)

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