1878 in Sweden
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Years: | 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 |
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Eldkvarn 1878
Events from the year 1878 in Sweden
Incumbents[]
- Monarch – Oscar II
- Prime Minister – Louis Gerhard De Geer
Events[]
- 21 July - The Vega Expedition starts
- August – Mission Covenant Church of Sweden is founded
- 22 November - The Metric system is introduced in Sweden
- 6 December - The Phonograph is introduced in Sweden
- - First issue of Bohusläningen
- - The Stockholm University is founded.
- - The Eldkvarn fire.
- - The Svenska Federationen is founded to stop the regulation of prostitutes.[1] It also questioned the sexual double standards that justified it, which also inspired the public sexual morality debate referred to as Sedlighetsdebatten.
- - The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is bought by the French.
Births[]
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- 4 January – Rosa Grünberg, actress and singer (died 1960)
Deaths[]
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- 8 February – Elias Magnus Fries, mycologist and botanist (born 1794)
- October 8 - Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer (born 1793)
- 30 November – Dorothea Dunckel, playwright (born 1799)
References[]
- ^ Svanström, Yvonne, Offentliga kvinnor: prostitution i Sverige 1812-1918 [Public Women: Prostitution in Sweden 1812-1918], Ordfront, Stockholm, 2006 (Swedish)
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