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Events from the year 1849 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• 11 May - Uppsala Student Union
• Fredrika Bremer travels to USA.
• The Bourse (Gothenburg) is opened.
• The second of the von Schwerin Estate's Scandals attracts attention.
• The Nya smedjegården in Stockholm is transformed to a women's prison.^[1]

Births

• 13 January - Alfhild Agrell, writer and playwright (died 1923)
• 22 January – August Strindberg, writer and playwright (died 1912)
• 14 December - Wilhelmina Skogh, business person (died 1926)
• 25 May - Louise Hammarström, chemist (died 1917)
• 31 May - Carl Fredrik Hill, painter (died 1911)
• 22 September – Olena Falkman, concert vocalist (died 1928)
• 1 October – Anne Charlotte Leffler, writer and playwright (died 1892)
• 7 October - Martina Bergman-Österberg, physical education instructor and women's suffrage advocate (died 1915)
• 17 October – Johan Ericson
• 6 December – Maria Adelborg
• 11 December – Ellen Key, writer (died 1926)
• 31 December – Birger Eek
• Louise von Fersen, courtier (born 1777)

Deaths

References