1890 in Sweden
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Oscar II
- Prime Minister â Gustaf à kerhielm.
Events
- - The mining company Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) founded.
- - The newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning founded.
- - KFUM Ãrebro
- - LKAB
- - Nordstjernan
- - Uddevalla Suffrage Association
- - Lilly Engström became the first female member of a Board of education.
- 7 August - Anna MÃ¥nsdotter became the last woman in Sweden to be executed.[1]
Births
- 26 January â Carlos Adlercreutz, military officer (died 1963).[2]
- 7 March â Gustaf Weidel, gymnast (died 1959).[3]
- 27 April â Karl Asplund, poet, short story writer and art historian (died 1978).[4]
- 28 August â Gustaf Dyrsch, horse rider (died 1974).[5]
- 26 September â Karl Lindahl, gymnast (died 1960).[6]
- 2 November â Moa Martinson, author (died 1964).[7]
Deaths
- 8 March - Josefina Deland, women's rights activist (born 1814)
- 8 May â Herman Schultz, astronomer (born 1823).[8]
- 20 September â Gustaf Wilhelm Palm, landscape painter and art professor (born 1810).[9]
- 7 October â Edvard Perséus, painter (born 1841).[10]
- 11 November - Emilie Risberg, writer and reform pedagogue (born 1815)
