1858 in Sweden
Years in Sweden: | 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 |
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Years: | 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 |
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)
- 20 November - Selma Lagerlöf, writer (died 1940)
- - Kata Dalström, political agitator (died 1923)
- - Alina Jägerstedt, union worker (died 1919)
- - Ebba Bernadotte, philanthropist and morganatic consort (died 1926)
Deaths
- 15 October - Karl Gustaf Mosander, chemist (born 1797)
- - Ulla Stenberg, artist (born 1792)
References
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