1855 in Sweden



Events from the year 1855 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Oscar I

Events

 * 1 January - The Telegraphynet between the most important cities in Sweden are completed.
 * 1 July - The first Swedish Postage stamp.
 * 4 May - Kyrkoplikt as well as all remaining forms of Public humiliation and Corporal punishments are abolished.
 * - The Great Awakening established in Sweden.
 * - Inauguration of the Gothenburg Synagogue.
 * - Lea Ahlborn is appointed royal printmaker, which formally makes her the first female civil servant in Sweden.
 * - Frederique Hammarstedt takes over the Hammarstedtska skolan.
 * - KFUM Jönköping
 * - Klosterskolan (Uppsala), the first training college for female teachers, is founded.
 * - Svenska lärarinnors pensionsförening (The Society for Retired Female Teachers) is founded by initiative of Josefina Deland.
 * - A reform abolishes the use of Pillory and the Pranger, by then already in practice outdated and seldom used.

Births

 * 25 April – Hjalmar Lundbohm, geologist and chemist (died 1926)
 * 10 June - Hilma Angered Strandberg, writer (died 1927)
 * 19 November - Anna Branting, journalist and writer (died 1950)
 * 23 September - Ellen Fries, writer  (died 1900)
 * 7 December - Gunhild Rosén, ballerina and ballet master (died 1928)

Deaths

 * 25 January – Carolina Brunström, ballerina (born 1803)
 * 15 February - Emilia Uggla, pianist (born 1819)
 * 7 May – Wendela Gustafva Sparre, textile artist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1772)
 * 27 August – Hans Olov Holmström, bishop (born 1784)
 * - Marie Antoinette Petersén, violinist (born 1771)