1870 in Sweden

Events from the year 1870 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles XV

Events

 * - In accordance with the recommendations of the progressive Girls' School Committee of 1866, the first gymnasium for women is opened (at Wallinska skolan in Stockholm).
 * - Universities open to women (at the same terms as men 1873).
 * - The first Folk high school open to women is founded by Fredrique Paijkull.
 * - The Bukowskis is founded
 * - First issue of Sydsvenskan

Births

 * 25 January - Helge von Koch, mathematician (died 1924)
 * 27 May - Anna Stecksén, pathologist (died 1904)
 * 3 April - Agda Östlund, suffragist and social democrat (died 1942)
 * 7 April – Anna Lindhagen, politician and social reformer (died 1941)
 * 2 October - Hilma Swedahl, gold prospector (died 1965)
 * 11 November - Sigfrid Edström, 4th president of the IOC (died 1964)

Deaths

 * 28 June – Henrik Reuterdahl, archbishop (born 1795)