1860 in Sweden

Events from the year 1860 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

Events

• A.E. Schwabitz and A.E. Rudberg produces a proposal for the regulation of Gamla stan.
• The Dissenter Acts (Sweden) allow citizens to leave the state church.
• Kamewa is created.
• Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club is founded.
• The internal passport, until then needed to travel inside the country, is abolished.
• Jeanette Berglind founds the pioneer institution Tysta Skolan (Silent School) for the deaf in Stockholm.

Births

• 21 January – Karl Staaff, prime minister (died 1915)
• 7 February – Anna Norrie, actress (died 1957)
• 18 February – Anders Zorn, painter (died 1920)
• 28 May – Sigrid Elmblad, writer and translator (died 1926)
• 31 July - Ellen Hartman, actress (died 1945)
• 10 August – Caroline Boman Hansen, Swedish–Norwegian hotelier (died 1956).

• Elin Engström, politician (Social Democrat), trade unionist and women's right activist (died 1956)
• 17 December - Carl Lindhagen, politician (died 1926)

Deaths

• 11 May – Israel Hwasser, physician and writer, member of the Swedish Academy (born 1790)
• 10 August – Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter (born 1810)
• 17 December – Désirée Clary, queen dowager (born 1777)
• - Kloka Anna, cunning woman (born 1797)
• - Ebba d'Aubert, pianist (born 1819)

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