1801 in Sweden

Events from the year 1801 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf

Events

 * The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is occupied by Great Britain.
 * Carl Gustaf af Leopold publishes the Afhandling om svenska stafsättet
 * The Second League of Armed Neutrality, an alliance of Denmark–Norway, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia dissolves.
 * Foundation of the Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm, the only theater except the Royal Dramatic Theater allowed to function in the capital during the 1798–1842 royal theater monopoly.

Births

 * 22 January – Lars Johan Hierta, newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician (died 1872)
 * 1 February – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (died 1878)
 * 24 March – Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (died 1872)
 * 9 May – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (died 1873)
 * 17 May – Lovisa Åhrberg, herbalist doctor (died 1881)
 * 21 May – Princess Sophie of Sweden, princess (died 1865)
 * 26 July – Maria Röhl, portrait artist (died 1875)
 * 14 August – Fredrika Bremer, writer (died 1865)
 * 22 October – Carl Jakob Sundevall, zoologist (died 1875)
 * 18 December – Ulrik Torsslow, actor (died 1881)
 * Brita Sofia Hesselius, photographer (died 1866)

Deaths

 * Ulrica Arfvidsson, fortune teller (born 1734)
 * Ulrica Arfvidsson, fortune teller (born 1734)