1888 in Sweden

Events from the year 1888 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Oscar II
 * Prime Minister – Robert Themptander, Gillis Bildt

Events

 * 6 February – Gillis Bildt assumed the position of prime minister
 * 25 June – The Umeå city fire destroyed most of the city of Umeå
 * 30 September – Elizabeth Stride is murdered in Whitechapel in London.
 * The Iron Ore Line is opened.
 * The trade union Swedish Metalworkers' Union is formed.
 * The mursmäckas launched a strike in Stockholm to raise their salary. This attracted a great deal of attention because of their gender, and the newspapers called it The Women's Strike.
 * The Women's Worker's Club, the first political club for women in Sweden, is founded by Elma Danielsson in Malmö.
 * The temperance activist Emilie Rathou became the first woman in Sweden to demand the right for women suffrage in a public speech.
 * The Fotografiska Föreningen (Photographic Society) is founded: the first woman, Anna Hwass, is made a member of the board.
 * The morganatic marriage between Prince Oscar and Ebba Munck cause a scandal.
 * 1888 Sundsvall fire

Births

 * 26 January - Lisa Steier, ballerina and ballet master (died 1928).
 * 18 March – Axel Janse, gymnast (died 1973).
 * 26 March – Elsa Brändström, nurse and philanthropist (died 1948)
 * 14 December – Åke Lundeberg, sport shooter (died 1939).
 * 18 December – Mauritz Eriksson, sport shooter (died 1947).

Deaths

 * 21 July – Victoria Benedictsson, writer (born 1850)
 * 7 February – Aurore von Haxthausen, composer  (born 1830)