1878 in Sweden
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Incumbents
Events
- 21 July - The Vega Expedition starts
- August â Mission Covenant Church of Sweden is founded
- 22 November - The Metric system is introduced in Sweden
- 6 December - The Phonograph is introduced in Sweden
- - First issue of Bohusläningen
- - The Stockholm University is founded.
- - The Eldkvarn fire.
- - The Svenska Federationen is founded to stop the regulation of prostitutes.[1] It also questioned the sexual double standards that justified it, which also inspired the public sexual morality debate referred to as Sedlighetsdebatten.
- - The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is bought by the French.
Births
- 4 January â Rosa Grünberg, actress and singer (died 1960)
- 25 January â Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer (died 1975)
- 17 February â Celina Runeborg, painter (died 1977)
- 27 May â Anna Cervin, artist (died 1972)
- 25 June â Erik Viktor Tryggelin, painter (died 1962)
- 23 September â Carl Kylberg, modernist painter (died 1952)
Deaths
- 8 February â Elias Magnus Fries, mycologist and botanist (born 1794)
- 8 October - Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer (born 1793)
- 30 November â Dorothea Dunckel, playwright (born 1799)
