1870 in Sweden explained

Events from the year 1870 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

Events

• - In accordance with the recommendations of the progressive Girls' School Committee of 1866, the first gymnasium for women is opened (at Wallinska skolan in Stockholm).^[1]
• - Universities open to women (at the same terms as men 1873).^[2]
• - The first Folk high school open to women is founded by Fredrique Paijkull.
• - The Bukowskis is founded
• - First issue of Sydsvenskan

Births

• 25 January - Helge von Koch, mathematician (died 1924)
• 27 May - Anna Stecksén, pathologist (died 1904)
• 3 April - Agda Östlund, suffragist and social democrat (died 1942)
• 7 April – Anna Lindhagen, politician and social reformer (died 1941)
• 2 October - Hilma Swedahl, gold prospector (died 1965)
• 11 November - Sigfrid Edström, 4th president of the IOC (died 1964)

Deaths

• 28 June – Henrik Reuterdahl, archbishop (born 1795)

Notes and References

1. Evelina Wilhelmina Fahnehjelm, urn:sbl:15001, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Bengt Hildebrand.), hämtad 2015-05-11.
2. Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok 1979