1817 in Sweden

Events from the year 1817 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles XIII

Events

 * 16 February – Förlofningen by Dorothea Dunckel has its premier at the Aurora ordens teater.
 * - The first suggestion to abolish the legal minority of adult unmarried women is discussed in the Riksdag.
 * - Samuel Owen constructs the first Paddle steamer in Sweden.
 * - Gustaf Fredrik Wirsén inducted full member, and Justina Casagli, Elisabet Frösslind, Anna Sofia Sevelin and Jeanette Wässelius made associée of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
 * - Filippo Taglioni appointed ballet master at the Royal Swedish Ballet.

Births

 * 21 February – Fanny Westerdahl, stage actress (died 1873)
 * 24 March – Fritz von Dardel, artist (died 1901)
 * 10 July – Wilhelmina Bonde, courtier (died 1899)
 * 6 September - Helga de la Brache, impostor (died 1885)
 * 2 October - Gunnar Wennerberg
 * 6 October – Gustaf Lagerbjelke, poet composer and politician (died 1901)
 * – Sophia Wilkens, reform educator of the disabled  (died 1873)

Deaths

 * 8 March - Anna Maria Lenngren, poet (born 1754)