1846 in Sweden
Events from the year '''1846 in Sweden'''
Incumbents
Events
- 28 June: The Church of Sweden Härnösand Cathedral is inaugurated.
- December 22 - The guild system in Sweden is abolished by the Fabriks och Handtwerksordning and Handelsordningen.
- Trade and craft professions are opened to all unmarried women.
- Adolf Eugene von Rosen and Georg Theodor Policron von Chiewitz proposes a regulation of Gamla stan.
- The Swedish History Museum is founded.
- Gothenburg becomes the first Swedish city to be lit up by voal gas. Den broderade plånboken by August BlancheDubbelgångaren av Fjodor DostojevskijEngelbrekt och hans dalkarlar by August BlancheLäkaren by August BlancheMagister Bläckstadius eller giftermåls-annonsen by August BlancheRika morbror by August BlancheSyskonbarnen eller Hofgunst och Folkgunst by Karl KullbergTorparen och hans omgifning by Sophie von Knorring
Births
- 26 February – Amanda Forsberg, ballerina
- 16 March – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, mathematician
- 28 April – Johan Oskar Backlund, astronomer
- 5 May – Lars Magnus Ericsson, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson
- May - Nanna Hoffman factory owner
- 22 December – Andreas Hallén, composer, conductor and music teacher
Deaths
- 28 January - Sara Wacklin, writer and educator
- 8 April - Augusta von Fersen, courtier
- 2 November – Esaias Tegnér, poet
- 18 December – Emilie Högqvist, actress and royal mistress
- Helena Spinacuta, actor and acrobat