1850 in Sweden

Events from the year 1850 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Oscar I

Events

 * 19 June – The wedding between Crown Prince Charles and Louise of the Netherlands.
 * 30 July - First issue of Hallandsposten.
 * - Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad is founded.
 * - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden is established in Sweden.
 * - The harpist Pauline Åhman becomes the first female instrumentalist employed at the Royal Swedish Chapel orchestra Kungliga Hovkapellet.

Births

 * 17 February – Ann-Margret Holmgren, author, feminist and pacifist  (died 1940)
 * 6 March – Victoria Benedictsson, writer (died 1888)
 * 23 April - Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist (died 1920)
 * 12 November - Calla Curman, host of a literary salon (died 1935)

Deaths

 * 15 February – Elisabeth Forsselius, actress  (born 1771)
 * 13 May – Erik Jansson, leader of a Swedish pietist sect that emigrated to the United States in 1846 (born 1808)
 * - Anna Carlström, innkeeper and brothel madam (born 1780)