1849 in Sweden

Events from the year '''1849 in Sweden'''

Background

Unlike the rest of Europe, Sweden wasn’t severely affected by the Revolutions of 1848, as some protests in March fizzled out, and the country spent the rest of 1848 in relative peace.

Incumbents

Monarch – Oscar I

Events

11 May - The Uppsala Student Union was formed at Uppsala University, the first of its kind in Sweden.
In October of 1849, Swedish writer and reformist Fredrika Bremer travels to the United States and lands in New York City, beginning her two year long journey across the US and Britain.
The Bourse (Gothenburg) is opened.
The second of the von Schwerin Estate's Scandals attracts attention.
The Nya smedjegården in Stockholm is transformed to a women's prison.

Births

13 January - Alfhild Agrell, writer and playwright
22 January – August Strindberg, writer and playwright
14 December - Wilhelmina Skogh, business person
25 May - Louise Hammarström, chemist
31 May - Carl Fredrik Hill, painter
22 September – Olena Falkman, concert vocalist
1 October – Anne Charlotte Leffler, writer and playwright
7 October - Martina Bergman-Österberg, physical education instructor and women's suffrage advocate
17 October – Johan Ericson
6 December – Maria Adelborg
11 December – Ellen Key, writer
31 December – Birger Eek

Deaths

January 4- Louise von Fersen, courtier