1808 in Sweden

Events from the year 1808 in Sweden

Incumbents

21 February - Finnish War
2 May - Battle of Pulkkila
2 March - Siege of Sveaborg
14 March - Dano-Swedish War of 1808â09 starts.
16 April - Battle of PyhÃ¤joki
18 April - Battle of Siikajoki
27 April - Battle of Revolax
28 April - Battle of Furuholm
19â20 June - Battle of Lemo
August - JÃ¤mtland Campaign of 1808
27 October - Battle of Koljonvirta
18 September - Battle of Palva Sund
26â28 September - Helsinki village landing
- JÃ¶ns Jacob Berzelius publishes the second part of his FÃ¶relÃ¤sningar i Djurkemien.
- Elisa Servenius enlists in the Swedish army dressed as a man because "She had decided to live and to die with her husband", the soldier Bernhard Servenus; she participates in the war between Sweden and Russia about Finland, and during one battle, she collected the ammunition of the Russians and gave them to her comrades. She is later discovered, fired but decorated with a medal for bravery in battle.^[1]
- The first school for the deaf and mute in Sweden is founded by PÃ¤r Aron Borg.

6 March - Sofia Adlersparre, painter (died 1862)
8 September â Wendela Hebbe, reporter, often called the first female reporter of her country (died 1899)
- Emanuel BjÃ¶rling, mathematician (died 1872)
21 October - Maria Christina Bruhn, inventor (born 1732)
28 December - Andreas Bruce, transsexual memoir writer (died 1885)