1890 in Sweden

Events from the year 1890 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Oscar II
 * Prime Minister – Gustaf Åkerhielm.

Events

 * - The mining company Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag (LKAB) founded.
 * - The newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning founded.
 * - KFUM Örebro
 * - LKAB
 * - Nordstjernan
 * - Uddevalla Suffrage Association
 * - Lilly Engström became the first female member of a Board of education.
 * 7 August - Anna Månsdotter became the last woman in Sweden to be executed.

Births

 * 7 March – Gustaf Weidel, gymnast (died 1959).
 * 27 April – Karl Asplund, poet, short story writer and art historian (died 1978).
 * 28 August – Gustaf Dyrsch, horse rider (died 1974).
 * 26 September – Karl Lindahl, gymnast (died 1960).
 * 2 November – Moa Martinson, author (died 1964).

Deaths



 * 8 March - Josefina Deland, women's rights activist (born 1814)
 * 8 May – Herman Schultz, astronomer (born 1823).
 * 20 September – Gustaf Wilhelm Palm, landscape painter and art professor (born 1810).
 * 7 October – Edvard Perséus, painter (born 1841).
 * 11 November - Emilie Risberg, writer and reform pedagogue (born 1815)