1869 in Sweden

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Ferdinand Richardt 1869,58x87 Gripsholm

Events from the year 1869 in Sweden

Incumbents[]

  • MonarchCharles XV

Events[]

  • 10 JulyGävle is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • Malmö SS is founded.
  • Women are allowed to work in the railway office.[1]

Births[]

  • 10 April – Signe Bergman, women's right activist (died 1960)
  • 28 June – Lydia Wahlström, historian and women's rights activist (died 1954)
  • 2 July – Hjalmar Söderberg, writer (died 1941)
  • 21 October – Stina Berg, actress (died 1930)
  • 6 December – Otto Nordenskjöld, geologist, geographer and polar explorer (died 1928)

Deaths[]

  • 28 January – Sophie Bolander, writer (born 1807)
  • 22 September – Ulrika Sofia De Geer, countess and salonnière (born 1793)
  • 12 November – Carl Georg Brunius, classical scholar, art historian, archaeologist and architect (born 1793)

References[]

  1. ^ Axianne Thorstenson (1918), Kvinnornas Stallning Inom Yrkena (PDF), Trykeri-A.-B. Ferm.


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