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).Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok (Little Focus Encyclopedia) Focus Uppslagsböcker AB (1979) (Swedish)
  • - 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.Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985

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){{cite web |title=Selma Lagerlöf {{!}} Swedish author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Selma-Lagerlof |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 April 2020 |language=en}}
  • 18 December - Kata Dalström, political agitator (died 1923)

Deaths

References

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