1896 in Sweden

Events from the year 1896 in Sweden

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Oscar II
 * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström.

Events

 * AIK Fotboll is founded.
 * Eskilstuna Guif is created.
 * Lundsbergs boarding school is established.
 * Svenska Mästerskapet
 * Broxvik Drama, a cause célèbre, takes place.
 * The Swedish National Council of Women is founded by Ellen Fries.
 * Nya smedjegården is closed and demolished.

Births

 * 6 May – Rolf Maximilian Sievert, medical physicist (died 1966)
 * 25 November – Tore Holm, sailor (died 1977).
 * 20 December – Arvid Andersson-Holtman, gymnast (died 1992).

Deaths

 * 19 October - Emmy Rappe, the first trained nurse in Sweden (born 1835)
 * 24 September – Louis Gerhard De Geer, baron (born 1818)
 * Kloka Anna i Vallåkra, divine visionary and natural healer (born 1820)
 * 9 March - Hanna Winge, painter (born 1838)
 * December 10 Alfred Nobel engineer (born 1833 in Sweden)