1801 in Sweden explained

Events from the year 1801 in Sweden

Incumbents

The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is occupied by Great Britain.
Carl Gustaf af Leopold publishes the Afhandling om svenska stafsättet
The Second League of Armed Neutrality, an alliance of Denmark–Norway, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia dissolves.
Foundation of the Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm, the only theater except the Royal Dramatic Theater allowed to function in the capital during the 1798–1842 royal theater monopoly.^[1]

22 January – Lars Johan Hierta, newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician (died 1872)
1 February – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (died 1878)
24 March – Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (died 1872)
9 May – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (died 1873)
17 May – Lovisa Åhrberg, herbalist doctor (died 1881)
21 May – Princess Sophie of Sweden, princess (died 1865)
26 July – Maria Röhl, portrait artist (died 1875)
14 August – Fredrika Bremer, writer (died 1865)
22 October – Carl Jakob Sundevall, zoologist (died 1875)
18 December – Ulrik Torsslow, actor (died 1881)
Brita Sofia Hesselius, photographer (died 1866)

Nordensvan, Georg. Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar; Första bandet, 1772-1842 (in Swedish)