1886 in Sweden

Events from the year 1886 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar II
• Prime Minister – Robert Themptander

Events

• The Dress reform society Svenska drägtreformföreningen is founded.
• - Brunkeberg Tunnel
• - Halmstad Bolmen Railway
• - Stella (magazine)
• - Storlien Station
• - Svenska Barnmorskeförbundet (The Swedish Midwifery Association) is founded by Johanna Hedén.

Births

• 18 January – Clara Nordström, Swedish-born German writer and translator (died 1962)
• 6 March – Hugo Jahnke, gymnast (died 1939).
• 16 March – Herbert Lindström, tug-of-war competitor (died 1951).
• April 1 – Brita von Horn, dramatist, novelist and theatre director (died 1983)
• 9 June – Tora Dahl, writer (died 1982).
• 25 August – Östen Undén, politician, prime minister (died 1974).
• Eva Andén, lawyer, first woman in the Swedish Bar Association (died 1970).

Deaths

• – Isak Albert Berg, singer, composer (born 1803)

References