1816 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1816 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XIII
Events
- Sweden joins the Holy Alliance.
- Inauguration of the Segerlindska teatern in Gothenburg.[1]
Births
- 3 February â Carl Olof Rosenius, preacher, author and editor (died 1868)
- 18 March â Louise von Fersen, heiress (died 1879)
- 12 June â Nils Blommér, painter (died 1853)
- 23 June â Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, architect, painter and composer (died 1881)
- 2 July â Wilhelmina Josephson, pianist (died 1906)
- 14 July â Fredrika Limnell, salonnière, women's right activist, philanthropist (died 1897)
- 21 August â Jeanette Berglind, sign language teacher and principal (died 1903)
- 12 September â Aurora von Qvanten, writer and artist (died 1907)[2]
- 20 September â Fredrik August Dahlgren, writer (died 1895)
- 11 October â Edvard Stjernström, stage actor and theater director (died 1877)
- 26 December â Aurore Storckenfeldt, educator (died 1900)
Deaths
- 14 January â Rutger Macklean, a driving figure in the reorganization of agricultural lands in Sweden that made possible large-scale farming with its economy of scale (born 1742)
- 24 January â Pehr Hörberg, artist (born 1746)
- 6 February â Henrik Gahn
- 11 February â Sophie Piper, courtier (born 1757)
- 27 July â Olof Tempelman, architect (born 1745)
