1841 in Sweden
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Incumbents
Events
- 10 June - The Stocks punishment, already restricted and generally fallen of use, is banned.[1]
- 6 August - Swedish Road Administration is founded.
- The state supported brothels London and Stadt Hamburg is closed.
- Wendela Hebbe, regarded a pioneer of female reporters, is employed as a reporter at Aftonbladet.
- First issue of the Barometern.
- Foundation of the shipping company Götaverken.
- The first issue of the Sundsvalls Tidning.
- The first of the von Schwerin Estate's Scandals attracts attention.
- Blommorna vid vägen, by Herman Sätherberg
- Diodes och Lydia by Wilhelmina Stålberg
- Kyrkoinvigningen i Hammarby by Emilie Flygare-Carlén
- En modig qvinnas händelserika lefnad, Antecknad av Henne Sjelf by Anna Carlström
- Qvinnan utan förmyndare (Woman without Guardian) by Amelie von Strussenfelt
- Inauguration of the Carolina Rediviva
Births
- 27 January â Selma Jacobsson, photographer (died 1899)
- 19 February â Elfrida Andrée, first female organist (died 1929)
- 18 June - Hedvig Willman, actress (died 1887)
- 24 August â Anna Hierta-Retzius, women's right activist (died 1924)
- 8 September - Carl Snoilsky, poet (died 1903)
- 29 December - Rosalie Fougelberg, dentist (died 1911)
Deaths
- 12 January â Märta Helena Reenstierna, diarist (born 1753)
- 19 February â Ulrika Carolina Widström, poet (born 1764)
- 17 September - Erik Djurström, stage actor (born 1787)
- 28 October - Johann Arfvedson, chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium (born 1792)
- â Mariana Koskull, royal mistress (born 1785)
- - Christina Fredenheim, singer (born 1762)
