1858 in Sweden
Events from the year '''1858 in Sweden'''
Incumbents
Events
- - The Conventicle Act (Sweden) is removed and the free churches are legalized.
- - Establishment of the Geological Survey of Sweden
- - Gothenburg Central Station is inaugurated.
- - Statistics Sweden is created.
- - Inauguration of Vänortsparken
- - Legal majority for unmarried women.
- - Louise Flodin starts her own news paper in Arboga, staffed exclusively by women.
- - The formal right of an employer to physically discipline their adult servants is abolished.
Births
- 28 February - Tore Svennberg, actor
- 3 June - Alina Jägerstedt, union worker
- 24 October - Ebba Bernadotte, philanthropist and morganatic consort
- 20 November - Selma Lagerlöf, writer
- 18 December - Kata Dalström, political agitator
Deaths
- 30 March - Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter
- 15 October - Karl Gustaf Mosander, chemist
- Ulla Stenberg, artist
- 2 April – Charlotte Lindmark, ballerina
- 31 December – Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe, court official