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1940 In Sweden
Events from the year 1940 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav V * Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson Events *April – Initiation of regular transit of German troops through Sweden to and from Norway Births *22 January – Tobias Berggren, poet. *11 June – Gunnar Harding, poet. *18 October – Carl von Essen, fencer. Deaths *10 March – Agnes von Krusenstjerna, writer (born 1894) *16 March – Selma Lagerlöf, writer (born 1858) *24 November – Janne Lundblad, horse rider (born 1877). *12 October – Ann-Margret Holmgren, feminist and pacifist writer (born 1850 Events January–June * April ** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome. ** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad " Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States. * April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a c ...) References External links Years of the 20th century in Sweden {{Sweden-year-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, ; fi, Ruotsi; fit, Ruotti; se, Ruoŧŧa; smj, Svierik; sje, Sverji; sju, Sverje; sma, Sveerje or ; yi, שוועדן, Shvedn; rmu, Svedikko; rmf, Sveittiko. formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country and the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of ; around 87% of Swedes reside in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden’s urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Because the country is so long, ranging from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N, the climate of Sweden is diverse. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times, . T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10 March
Events Pre-1600 *241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. * 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage. * 947 – The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor. *1496 – After establishing the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command. *1535 – Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, discovers the Galápagos Islands by chance on his way to Peru. 1601–1900 *1607 – Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia. *1629 – Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule. *1661 – French "Sun King" Louis XIV begins his personal rule of France aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1850 In Sweden
Events from the year 1850 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events * 19 June – The wedding between Crown Prince Charles and Louise of the Netherlands.Lovisa, urn:sbl:9717, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Nils F Holm), hämtad 2013-11-01. * 30 July - First issue of ''Hallandsposten''. * - ''Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad'' is founded. * - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden is established in Sweden. * - The harpist Pauline Åhman becomes the first female instrumentalist employed at the Royal Swedish Chapel orchestra Kungliga Hovkapellet. Births * 17 February – Ann-Margret Holmgren, author, feminist and pacifist (died 1940) * 6 March – Victoria Benedictsson, writer (died 1888) * 23 April - Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist (died 1920) * 12 November - Calla Curman, host of a literary salon (died 1935) Deaths * 15 February – Elisabeth Forsselius, actress (born 1771) * 13 May – Erik Jansson, leader o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann-Margret Holmgren
Anna Margareta "Ann-Margret" Holmgren, (née Tersmeden; 17February 185012October 1940), was a Swedish author, Feminism, feminist, Suffrage, suffragist, and pacifist. Life She was born at Hässle Manor in Uppland, Sweden. She was the daughter of Baroness Augusta Jacquette Cederström (1818–1860) and the conservative politician and courtier, nobleman Jacob Nils Tersmeden (1795–1867), thus great-granddaughter of Jacob Tersmeden and Lona Lisa Söderhielm. In 1869, she married Frithiof Holmgren (1831–1897), medical doctor and professor at Uppsala University. Their residence, Villa Åsen in the district of Kåbo in Uppsala, was the site of discussion forums for intellectual students and a centre for radical and modern ideas. Among the modern ideas in these radical circles were the introduction of a republic, democracy, suffrage, workers' rights, contraception and atheism. This is thought to have given Holmgren radical sympathies, and she participated in the radical paper ''Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12 October
Events Pre-1600 *539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. ( Julian calendar) * 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. *1279 – The '' Nichiren Shōshū'' branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan. *1398 – In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights. *1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before. *1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. ( Julian calendar) 1601–1900 *1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. *1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1877 In Sweden
Events from the year 1877 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Louis Gerhard De Geer Events * 2 March - The Helga de la Brache affair is completed by a conviction of the de la Brache after her exposure.47-48 (Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 6. Degeberg - Egyptolog)". Nordisk familjebok - Uggleupplagan (in Swedish) 6. 1907. p. 40. * - ''Televerket (Sweden)'' introduces the telephone to the Swedish government. * - Foundation of the '' Söderbloms Gjuteri & Mekaniska Verkstad'' * - Inauguration of the Tisselskog Church * - First issue of the ''Östersunds-Posten'' * - Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography is founded. Births * 11 January – Oskar Andersson, cartoonist (died 1906) * 5 November - Märtha Leth, pharmacist (died 1954) Deaths * 5 February – C. V. A. Strandberg, poet (born 1818) * 28 April - Charlotte Pousette, stage actress (born 1832) * 3 May – Mathilda Berwald, concert singer (born 1798 Events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janne Lundblad
Janne Lundblad (11 April 1887 – 24 November 1940) was a Swedish Army officer and horse rider who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from .... In 1920 he and his horse ''Uno'' won the gold medal in the individual dressage. Eight years later he won the silver medal with the Swedish dressage team. This time with his horse ''Blackmar''. They also competed in the individual dressage event and finished fourth. Lundblad was captain in the Swedish Army. References External linksprofile 1887 births 1940 deaths Swedish Army officers Swedish dressage riders Olympic equestrians of Sweden Swedish male equestrians Equestrians at the 1920 Summer Olympics Equestrians at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24 November
Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Theodosius I makes his ''adventus'', or formal entry, into Constantinople. * 1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem. *1221 – Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia. * 1227 – Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing. *1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages. *1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates. *1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. *1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1858 In Sweden
Events from the year 1858 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events * - The Conventicle Act (Sweden) is removed and the free churches are legalized. * - Establishment of the Geological Survey of Sweden * - Gothenburg Central Station is inaugurated. * - Statistics Sweden is created. * - Inauguration of '' Vänortsparken'' * - Legal majority for unmarried women (if applied for; automatic legal majority in 1863). * - Louise Flodin starts her own news paper in Arboga, staffed exclusively by women. * - The formal right of an employer to physically discipline their adult servants is abolished. Births * 28 February - Tore Svennberg, actor (died 1941) * 3 June - Alina Jägerstedt, union worker (died 1919) * 24 October - Ebba Bernadotte, philanthropist and morganatic consort (died 1926) * 20 November - Selma Lagerlöf, writer (died 1940) * 18 December - Kata Dalström, political agitator (died 1923) Deaths * 30 March - Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (, , ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author. She published her first novel, ''Gösta Berling's Saga'', at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. Additionally, she was the first woman to be granted a membership in the Swedish Academy in 1914. Life Early years Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was born on 20 November 1858 at Mårbacka, Värmland, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. Lagerlöf was the daughter of Erik Gustaf Lagerlöf, a lieutenant in the Royal Värmland Regiment, and Louise Lagerlöf (''née'' Wallroth), whose father was a well-to-do merchant and a foundry owner (). Lagerlöf was the couple's fifth child out of six. She was born with a hip injury, which was caused by detachment in the hip joint. At the age of three and a half, a sickness left her lame in both legs, although she later recovered. She was a quiet, serious child with a deep love of reading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16 March
Events Pre-1600 * 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. *1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. *1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur. 1601–1900 *1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." *1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament. *1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. *1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. *1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. *1872 – The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 In Sweden
Events from the year 1894 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström. Events *11 March - GAIS is founded *3 December: The Church of Sweden Umeå City Church is inaugurated on First Advent Sunday. *Date unknown - Kata Dalström is engaged as a lecturer for the Socialists *Date unknown - Svartviks IF is established Births * 1 January - Aurora Nilsson, writer (died 1972) *21 March – Hannah Ryggen, textile artist (died 1970). * 6 July – Edmund Lindmark, gymnast (died 1968). * 9 October - Agnes von Krusenstjerna, writer (died 1940) Deaths * 22 October – Gillis Bildt, politician (born 1820) * - Peggy Hård, first woman clerk (born 1825) * - Gumman Strömberg, fish seller, local profile (born 1830) * 7 May - Marie Sophie Schwartz, writer (born 1819) * 28 January - Elise Hwasser, actress (born 1831 Events January–March * January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
