1890 in Sweden

Events from the year 1890 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar II
• Prime Minister – Gustaf Åkerhielm.

Events

• - The mining company Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) founded.
• - The newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning founded.
• - KFUM Örebro
• - LKAB
• - Nordstjernan
• - Uddevalla Suffrage Association
• - Lilly Engström became the first female member of a Board of education.
• 7 August - Anna MÃ¥nsdotter became the last woman in Sweden to be executed.

Births

• 26 January – Carlos Adlercreutz, military officer (died 1963).
• 7 March – Gustaf Weidel, gymnast (died 1959).
• 27 April – Karl Asplund, poet, short story writer and art historian (died 1978).
• 28 August – Gustaf Dyrsch, horse rider (died 1974).
• 26 September – Karl Lindahl, gymnast (died 1960).
• 2 November – Moa Martinson, author (died 1964).

Deaths

• 8 March - Josefina Deland, women's rights activist (born 1814)
• 8 May – Herman Schultz, astronomer (born 1823).
• 20 September – Gustaf Wilhelm Palm, landscape painter and art professor (born 1810).
• 7 October – Edvard Perséus, painter (born 1841).
• 11 November - Emilie Risberg, writer and reform pedagogue (born 1815)

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