1850 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• 19 June – The wedding between Crown Prince Charles and Louise of the Netherlands.
• 30 July - First issue of Hallandsposten.
• - Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad is founded.
• - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden is established in Sweden.
• - The harpist Pauline Åhman becomes the first female instrumentalist employed at the Royal Swedish Chapel orchestra Kungliga Hovkapellet.

Births

• 17 February – Ann-Margret Holmgren, author, feminist and pacifist
• 6 March – Victoria Benedictsson, writer
• 23 April - Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist
• 12 November - Calla Curman, host of a literary salon

Deaths

• 15 February – Elisabeth Forsselius, actress
• 13 May – Erik Jansson, leader of a Swedish pietist sect that emigrated to the United States in 1846
• - Anna Carlström, innkeeper and brothel madam