1858 in Sweden explained

Events from the year 1858 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

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)
• 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)^[3]
• 18 December - Kata Dalström, political agitator (died 1923)

Deaths

• 30 March - Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter (born 1806)
• 15 October - Karl Gustaf Mosander, chemist (born 1797)
• Ulla Stenberg, artist (born 1792)
• 2 April – Charlotte Lindmark, ballerina (born 1819)
• 31 December – Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe, court official (born 1779)

Notes and References

1. Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok (Little Focus Encyclopedia) Focus Uppslagsböcker AB (1979) (Swedish)
2. Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985
3. Web site: Selma Lagerlöf Swedish author . Encyclopedia Britannica . 24 April 2020 . en.