1896 in Sweden

Events from the year 1896 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar II
• Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström.

Events

• AIK Fotboll is founded.
• Eskilstuna Guif is created.
• Lundsbergs boarding school is established.
• Svenska Mästerskapet
• Broxvik Drama, a cause célèbre, takes place.
• The Swedish National Council of Women is founded by Ellen Fries.
• Nya smedjegÃ¥rden is closed and demolished.

Births

• 6 May – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, medical physicist (died 1966)
• 25 November – Tore Holm, sailor (died 1977).
• 20 December – Arvid Andersson-Holtman, gymnast (died 1992).

Deaths

• 19 October - Emmy Rappe, the first trained nurse in Sweden (born 1835)
• 24 September – Louis Gerhard De Geer, baron (born 1818)
• Kloka Anna i VallÃ¥kra, divine visionary and natural healer (born 1820)
• 9 March - Hanna Winge, painter (born 1838)
• December 10 Alfred Nobel engineer (born 1833 in Sweden)

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