Events from the year 1871 in Sweden

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Charles XV

Events

  • Poor Care Regulation of 1871 replace the Poor Care Regulation of 1847.
  • July – Handelsbanken is established in Stockholm.
  • Stockholm Central Station is inaugurated.
  • Geologiska föreningen is founded.

Births

  • 7 February – Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer (died 1927)
  • 14 February - Gerda Lundequist, actress (died 1959)
  • 15 February – John W. Nordstrom, Swedish-born American co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain (d. 1963)
  • 12 March – Oscar Hedström, co-founder of the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company, makers of the Indian Motocycle (died 1960)

Deaths

  • 25 February - Anna Sofia Sevelin, opera singer (born 1790)
  • 30 March - Louise of the Netherlands, queen consort (born 1828)
  • - Anna Sundström, chemist (born 1785)
  • - Emma Fürstenhoff, florist (born 1802)

References



History of Sweden more than Vikings Official site of Sweden

A short history of sweden

Sweden 1874 Catawiki

The History of Sweden A Timeline of the Swedish People

History of Sweden (161148) Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia