1841 in Sweden

Events from the year 1841 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles XIV John

Events

 * 10 June - The Stocks punishment, already restricted and generally fallen of use, is banned.
 * 6 August - Swedish Road Administration is founded.
 * The state supported brothels London and Stadt Hamburg is closed.
 * Wendela Hebbe, regarded a pioneer of female reporters, is employed as a reporter at Aftonbladet.
 * First issue of the Barometern.
 * Foundation of the shipping company Götaverken.
 * The first issue of the Sundsvalls Tidning.
 * The first of the von Schwerin Estate's Scandals attracts attention.
 * Blommorna vid vägen, by Herman Sätherberg
 * Diodes och Lydia by Wilhelmina Stålberg
 * Kyrkoinvigningen i Hammarby by Emilie Flygare-Carlén
 * En modig qvinnas händelserika lefnad, Antecknad av Henne Sjelf by Anna Carlström
 * Qvinnan utan förmyndare (Woman without Guardian) by Amelie von Strussenfelt
 * Inauguration of the Carolina Rediviva

Births

 * 27 January – Selma Jacobsson, photographer (died 1899)
 * 19 February – Elfrida Andrée, first female organist  (died 1929)
 * 18 June - Hedvig Willman, actress (died 1887)
 * 24 August – Anna Hierta-Retzius, women's right activist (died 1924)
 * 8 September - Carl Snoilsky, poet (died 1903)
 * 29 December - Rosalie Fougelberg, dentist (died 1911)

Deaths

 * 12 January – Märta Helena Reenstierna, diarist (born 1753)
 * 19 February – Ulrika Carolina Widström, poet  (born 1764)
 * 17 September - Erik Djurström, stage actor (born 1787)
 * 28 October - Johann Arfvedson, chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium  (born 1792)
 * – Mariana Koskull, royal mistress (born 1785)
 * - Christina Fredenheim, singer (born 1762)