1860 in Sweden explained

Events from the year 1860 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

Events

• A.E. Schwabitz and A.E. Rudberg produces a proposal for the regulation of Gamla stan.^[1]
• The Dissenter Acts (Sweden) allow citizens to leave the state church.
• Kamewa is created.
• Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club is founded.
• The internal passport, until then needed to travel inside the country, is abolished.^[2]
• Jeanette Berglind founds the pioneer institution Tysta Skolan (Silent School) for the deaf in Stockholm.

Births

• 21 January – Karl Staaff, prime minister (died 1915)
• 7 February – Anna Norrie, actress (died 1957)
• 18 February – Anders Zorn, painter (died 1920)
• 28 May – Sigrid Elmblad, writer and translator (died 1926)^[3]
• 31 July - Ellen Hartman, actress (died 1945)
• Elin Engström, politician (Social Democrat), trade unionist and women's right activist (died 1956)
• 17 December - Carl Lindhagen, politician (died 1926)

Deaths

• 11 May – Israel Hwasser, physician and writer, member of the Swedish Academy (born 1790)
• 10 August – Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter (born 1810)
• 17 December – Désirée Clary, queen dowager (born 1777)
• - Kloka Anna, cunning woman (born 1797)
• - Ebba d'Aubert, pianist (born 1819)

Notes and References

1. Hall, Thomas (1999). Huvudstad i omvandling – Stockholms planering och utbyggnad under 700 år (in Swedish). Stockholm: Sveriges Radios förlag. .
2. Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985
3. Book: Arosenius . Louise . Hedberg . Valborg . Svenska Kvinnor från Skilda vVrksamhetsområden: biografisk Uppslagsbok . Stockholm . Bonnier . 1914 . 186092771 . SV . 28.