1821 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1821 in Sweden.
Incumbents
Events
- â First issue of the newly merged Post- och Inrikes Tidningar.
- 27 March â The Wolf of Gysinge was killed after having attacked 31 people over a three-month period.
Births
- 24 February - Sven Adolf Hedlund, newspaper publisher and politician (died 1900)
- 2 March â Axel Adlercreutz, politician, civil servant, President of the Göta Court of Appeal, Prime Minister for Justice (died 1880)
- 1 April â Geskel Saloman, portrait and genre painter (died 1902)
- 6 May - Emelie Holmberg, composer, singer, pianist, music teacher and organist (died 1854)[2]
- 21 September â Aurora Ljungstedt, horror writer (died 1908)
- 13 October â Oscar Byström, composer (died 1909)
- - Fanny Stål, classical pianist (died 1889)
Deaths
- 15 March - Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz, poet and inventor (born 1754)[3]
- 6 October â Anders Jahan Retzius, chemist, botanist and entomologist (born 1742)
