1858 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1858 in Sweden
Incumbents
Events
- - The Conventicle Act (Sweden) is removed and the free churches are legalized.
- - Establishment of the Geological Survey of Sweden
- - Gothenburg Central Station is inaugurated.
- - Statistics Sweden is created.
- - Inauguration of Vänortsparken
- - Legal majority for unmarried women (if applied for; automatic legal majority in 1863).[1]
- - Louise Flodin starts her own news paper in Arboga, staffed exclusively by women.
- - The formal right of an employer to physically discipline their adult servants is abolished.[2]
Births
- 28 February - Tore Svennberg, actor (died 1941)
- 3 June - Alina Jägerstedt, union worker (died 1919)
- 24 October - Ebba Bernadotte, philanthropist and morganatic consort (died 1926)
- 20 November - Selma Lagerlöf, writer (died 1940)[3]
- 18 December - Kata Dalström, political agitator (died 1923)
Deaths
- 30 March - Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter (born 1806)
- 15 October - Karl Gustaf Mosander, chemist (born 1797)
- Ulla Stenberg, artist (born 1792)
- 2 April – Charlotte Lindmark, ballerina (born 1819)
- 31 December – Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe, court official (born 1779)
References
- ^ Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok (Little Focus Encyclopedia) Focus Uppslagsböcker AB (1979) (Swedish)
- ^ Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985
- ^ "Selma Lagerlöf | Swedish author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 24 April 2020.