1879 in Sweden

Events from the year 1879 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar II
• Prime Minister – Louis Gerhard De Geer

Events

• - The Gothenburg tram network began operation.
• - The first issue of the Karlstads-Tidningen.
• - The Sabbatsberg Hospital is founded.
• - The first national Flickskolemöte (Girl School Meeting) to reform female education is summoned by Hilda Caselli.

Births

• 13 April – Johan Petter Åhlén, businessman and Olympic medalist (d. 1939)
• 26 June – Gustaf Adolf Jonsson, sport shooter (died 1949).
• 14 August – Bernhard Larsson, sport shooter (died 1947).
• 20 August – Gustaf Lewenhaupt, count, military officer and horse rider (died 1962).
• 10 December – Hanna Grönvall, politician and trade union worker (died 1953)

Deaths

• 3 January - Anna Johansdotter Norbäck, founder and leader of the religious movement Annaniterna (born 1804)
• 26 February – Anna Nordlander, painter (born 1843)

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