1849 in Sweden

Events from the year 1849 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Oscar I

Events

 * 11 May - Uppsala Student Union
 * Fredrika Bremer travels to USA.
 * The Bourse (Gothenburg) is opened.
 * The second of the von Schwerin Estate's Scandals attracts attention.
 * The Nya smedjegården in Stockholm is transformed to a women's prison.

Births

 * 13 January - Alfhild Agrell, writer and playwright (died 1923)
 * 22 January – August Strindberg, writer and playwright (died 1912)
 * 14 December - Wilhelmina Skogh, business person (died 1926)
 * 25 May - Louise Hammarström, chemist (died 1917)
 * 31 May - Carl Fredrik Hill, painter (died 1911)
 * 22 September – Olena Falkman, concert vocalist (died 1928)
 * 1 October – Anne Charlotte Leffler, writer and playwright (died 1892)
 * 7 October - Martina Bergman-Österberg, physical education instructor and women's suffrage advocate (died 1915)
 * 17 October – Johan Ericson
 * 6 December – Maria Adelborg
 * 11 December – Ellen Key, writer (died 1926)
 * 31 December – Birger Eek
 * Louise von Fersen, courtier (born 1777)