1839 in Sweden

Events from the year 1839 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles XIV John

Events

 * The revised edition of the radical novel Det går an by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, first published in 1822, is published
 * Liljeholmens Stearinfabriks AB
 * Stockholms Lyceum

Births

 * 2 March - Victoria Bundsen, opera alto  (died 1909)
 * 18 April - Lotten Edholm, composer and a pioneer within the Swedish Red Cross  (died 1930)
 * 21 May - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer (died 1914)
 * 24 August - Sofie Johannesdotter, serial killer (died 1876)
 * 2 November - Augusta Braunerhjelm, playwright  (died 1929)
 * 30 December - Victor Hartman, actor (died 1898)
 * Charlotte Yhlen, doctor (died 1919)
 * Hulda Mellgren, industrialist (died 1918)

Deaths

 * 7 February - Karl August Nicander, poet  (born 1799)
 * 30 June - Johan Olof Wallin, minister, orator, poet and later Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala (born 1779)
 * Jacquette Löwenhielm, royal mistress (born 1797)
 * Pär Aron Borg, pioneer in the education for the blind and deaf (born 1776)
 * Pehr Henrik Ling, called the "father of Swedish athletics"