1860 in Sweden
Incumbents
Events
- A.E. Schwabitz and A.E. Rudberg produces a proposal for the regulation of Gamla stan.[1]
- The Dissenter Acts (Sweden) allow citizens to leave the state church.
- Kamewa is created.
- Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club is founded.
- The internal passport, until then needed to travel inside the country, is abolished.[2]
- Jeanette Berglind founds the pioneer institution Tysta Skolan (Silent School) for the deaf in Stockholm.
Births
- 21 January – Karl Staaff, prime minister (died 1915)
- 7 February – Anna Norrie, actress (died 1957)
- 18 February – Anders Zorn, painter (died 1920)
- 28 May – Sigrid Elmblad, writer and translator (died 1926)[3]
- 31 July - Ellen Hartman, actress (died 1945)
- Elin Engström, politician (Social Democrat), trade unionist and women's right activist (died 1956)
- 17 December - Carl Lindhagen, politician (died 1926)
Deaths
- 11 May – Israel Hwasser, physician and writer, member of the Swedish Academy (born 1790)
- 10 August – Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter (born 1810)
- 17 December – Désirée Clary, queen dowager (born 1777)
- - Kloka Anna, cunning woman (born 1797)
- - Ebba d'Aubert, pianist (born 1819)
References
- Hall, Thomas (1999). Huvudstad i omvandling – Stockholms planering och utbyggnad under 700 år (in Swedish). Stockholm: Sveriges Radios förlag. ISBN 91-522-1810-4.
- Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985
- Arosenius, Louise; Hedberg, Valborg (1914). Svenska Kvinnor från Skilda vVrksamhetsområden: biografisk Uppslagsbok (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. p. 28. OCLC 186092771.
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