1868 in Sweden

Events from the year '''1868 in Sweden'''

Incumbents

Monarch – Charles XV

Events

19 September – inauguration of Dalsland Canal.
1 November – Folk high school introduced in Sweden.
Bladin's International School
United Methodist Church of Sweden
30 November – A bronze statue of King Charles XII is unveiled in Stockholm’s Kungsträdgården park.

Births

January 19 – Ebba Atterbom, translator and educator
February 23 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Cabaret singer and movie director
March 12 – Mary Karadja, writer, spiritualist and princess.
April 7 – Herman Bernhard Lundborg, physician and a race biologist
April 25 – Ernst Linder, army general who served in the Swedish Army from 1887 to 1918
June 29 – Gustaf Nordenskiöld, scholar who was the first to scientifically study the ancient Pueblo ruins in Mesa Verde
July 24 – Axel Elof Jäderholm, zoologist and botanist
September 6 – Axel Hägerström, philosopher
November 15 – Josef Hammar, military surgeon and adventurer
October 18 – Ernst Didring, leader of the Swedish Red Cross for prisoners of the war between 1915 and 1920.
December 12 – Axel Petersson Döderhultarn, one of the recognized masters of wood carving
December 22 – Gustaf Fjæstad, Swedish painter

Deaths