1869 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1869 in Sweden

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By Ferdinand Richardt, in 1869

Incumbents

Monarch â Charles XV

Events

10 July â GÃ¤vle is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
MalmÃ¶ SS is founded.
Women are allowed to work in the railway office.^[1]

Births

10 April â Signe Bergman, women's right activist (died 1960)
28 June â Lydia WahlstrÃ¶m, historian and women's rights activist (died 1954)
2 July â Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg, writer (died 1941)
21 October â Stina Berg, actress (died 1930)
6 December â Otto NordenskjÃ¶ld, geologist, geographer and polar explorer (died 1928)

Deaths

28 January â Sophie Bolander, writer (born 1807)
22 September â Ulrika Sofia De Geer, countess and salonniÃ¨re (born 1793)
12 November â Carl Georg Brunius, classical scholar, art historian, archaeologist and architect (born 1793)

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