1872 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV, then Oscar II

Events

• 27 February - Betty Pettersson is accepted as a student at the Uppsala university, and thereby becomes the first female university student in Sweden.
• - Women are granted unlimited right to choose marriage partner without the need of any permission from her family, and arranged marriages are thereby banned.
• - Folk schools are given state support.
• - Linköping Central Station is completed
• 18 September - King Charles XV dies. Having no sons, he's succeeded by his brother Oscar II

Births

• 14 January – Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician
• 28 April – Carl Bonde, army officer and equerry
• 1 May – Hugo Alfvén, musician
• 9 June – Henry Rines, Swedish-born Minnesota Republican politician
• 26 September – Oscar Nygren, chief of the Swedish general staff from 1933 to 1937
• 6 October – Carl Gustaf Ekman, member of parliament from 1911 to 1932
• 12 November – Ida Granqvist, missionary
• 17 December – Valdemar Langlet, publisher

Deaths

• 22 March - Karolina Bock, actress
• 3 April – Henriette Widerberg, opera primadonna
• 3 September – Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist
• 18 September – Charles XV
• 20 November – Lars Johan Hierta, publisher
• Helena Eldrup, educator