1871 in Sweden

Events from the year 1871 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Charles XV

Events

 * Poor Care Regulation of 1871 replace the Poor Care Regulation of 1847.
 * July – Handelsbanken is established in Stockholm.
 * Stockholm Central Station is inaugurated.
 * Geologiska föreningen is founded.

Births

 * 7 February – Wilhelm Stenhammar, composer (died 1927)
 * 14 February - Gerda Lundequist, actress (died 1959)
 * 15 February – John W. Nordstrom, Swedish-born American co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain (d. 1963)
 * 12 March – Oscar Hedström, co-founder of the Indian Motocycle Manufacturing Company, makers of the Indian Motocycle  (died 1960)

Deaths

 * 25 February - Anna Sofia Sevelin, opera singer (born 1790)
 * 30 March - Louise of the Netherlands, queen consort (born 1828)
 * - Anna Sundström, chemist (born 1785)
 * - Emma Fürstenhoff, florist (born 1802)