1872 in Sweden
Events from the year '''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