1871 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

Events

• Poor Care Regulation of 1871 replace the Poor Care Regulation of 1847.
• July – Handelsbanken is established in Stockholm.
• Stockholm Central Station is inaugurated.Geologiska föreningen is founded.

Births

• 7 February – Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer
• 14 February - Gerda Lundequist, actress
• 15 February – John W. Nordstrom, Swedish-born American co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain
• 12 March – Oscar Hedström, co-founder of the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company, makers of the Indian Motocycle

Deaths

• 25 February - Anna Sofia Sevelin, opera singer
• 30 March - Louise of the Netherlands, queen consort
• - Anna Sundström, chemist
• - Emma Fürstenhoff, florist