1867 in Sweden
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Events from the year 1867 in Sweden
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XV
Events
- 1 August - Inauguration of the new Uppsala University Hospital.
- The Lantmanna Party is created.
- Emmy Rappe becomes head nurse in the newly established Surgical Clinic at the Uppsala Academic Hospital, where she opened the first professional training courses for nurses in Sweden.[1]
- The great Swedish famine of 1867-1869 spreads from Finland to Sweden, where it lasts until 1868. This is the last famine to take place in Sweden.[2]
- The scandal of the great bankruptcy of the heiress Louise von Fersen (1816â1879) attracts attention.
- The great Swedish emigration to the United States begun, in part caused by the great famine.[3]
- Helsingborgs Dagblad is founded.
- Augusta Lundin open her fashion studio in Stockholm.[4]
Births
- 27 February â Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer (died 1942)
- 26 September â Anna Paues, philologist (died 1945)
- 30 September â Gulli Petrini, physicist, women's right activist and politician (died 1941)
- 13 December â Jenny Brandt, ballerina (died 1933)
- Ebba De la Gardie, reporter (died 1928)
Deaths
- 4 January â Marianne Ehrenström, artist (born 1773)
- 3 October
- Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (born 1777)[5]
- Thora Thersner, artist (born 1818)[6]
- Anna Göransdotter, textile artist (born 1797)
- Lovisa Mathilda Nettelbladt, writer (born 1814)
