1871 in Sweden
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Charles XV
Events
- Poor Care Regulation of 1871 replace the Poor Care Regulation of 1847.
- July â Handelsbanken is established in Stockholm.
- Stockholm Central Station is inaugurated.[1]
- Geologiska föreningen is founded.
Births
- 7 February â Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer (died 1927)
- 14 February - Gerda Lundequist, actress (died 1959)
- 15 February â John W. Nordstrom, Swedish-born American co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain (d. 1963)
- 12 March â Oscar Hedström, co-founder of the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company, makers of the Indian Motocycle (died 1960)
Deaths
- 25 February - Anna Sofia Sevelin, opera singer (born 1790)
- 30 March - Louise of the Netherlands, queen consort (born 1828)
- - Anna Sundström, chemist (born 1785)
- - Emma Fürstenhoff, florist (born 1802)
