1897 in Sweden

Events from the year 1897 in Sweden

Incumbents

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

Events

• The General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm
• The Swedish Transport Workers' Union was founded.
• Sturehof is opened.
• Elsa Eschelsson become the first female with a Doctor of Laws in Sweden.
• Märtha Leth becomes the first formally educated and licensed female pharmacist in Sweden.

Sport

• IFK Eskilstuna founded
• Göteborgs FF founded
• Hammarby IF Bandy founded
• IFK Norrköping founded

Births

• 22 March – Carl Munters, inventor (died 1989)
• 30 March – Martin Hindorff, sailor (died 1969).
• 18 April – Per-Erik Hedlund, cross country skier (died 1975).
• 5 July – Åke Häger, gymnast (died 1968).
• 17 August – Erik Charpentier, gymnast (died 1978).

Deaths

• 30 January – Robert Themptander, prime minister (born 1844)
• 12 September - Fredrika Limnell, salonnière, philanthropist, women's rights activist (born 1816)
• 14 December - Edvard Swartz, stage actor (born 1826)

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