Events from the year 1867 in

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Incumbents

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Charles XV Charles XV or Carl (''Carl Ludvig Eugen''; Swedish language, Swedish and Norwegian language, Norwegian officially: ''Karl''; 3 May 1826 – 18 September 1872) was King of Sweden and List of Norwegian monarchs, Norway, there often referred to as C ...

Events

* 1 August - Inauguration of the new

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. * The Lantmanna Party is created. *

Emmy Rappe Emmy Carolina Rappe (14 February 1835 – 19 October 1896) was a Swedish nurse and principal for a nursing school. She was the pioneer and founder of the Swedish nursing education. She was the first trained professional nurse and the first princip ...

becomes head nurse in the newly established Surgical Clinic at the Uppsala Academic Hospital, where she opened the first professional training courses for nurses in Sweden. * The great Swedish famine of 1867-1869 spreads from Finland to Sweden, where it lasts until 1868. This is the last famine to take place in Sweden. * The scandal of the great bankruptcy of the heiress

Louise von Fersen (1816–1879) Hedvig Wilhelmina Augusta Sofia Maria Teresia Lovisa von Fersen (18 March 1816, in Stockholm – 29 December 1879, in Stockholm) was a Swedish countess and heiress, and the last member of the von Fersen family. She was one of the greatest heirs o ...

attracts attention. * The great

Swedish emigration to the United States During the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 1.3 million Swedes left Sweden for the United States of America. While the land of the American frontier was a magnet for the rural poor all over Europe, some factors encouraged Swedish emigrati ...

begun, in part caused by the great famine. * ''

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'' is founded. * Augusta Lundin open her fashion studio in Stockholm.Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Gunhild Engholm), hämtad 2015-01-06.

Births

* 27 February –

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ( 27 February 1867 — 3 December 1942) was a Swedes, Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Edvard Grieg, Grieg, August Söderman and Richard Wagner, Wagner as well as Swed ...

, composer (died

1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...

) * 26 September – Anna Paues, philologist (died

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be ...

) * 30 September – Gulli Petrini, physicist, women's right activist and politician (died

1941 The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, wa ...

) * 13 December –

Jenny Brandt Jenny Augusta Elisabeth Brandt (13 December 1867, Stockholm- 17 April 1933), was a Swedish ballerina. She was a student at the Royal Swedish Ballet, became a student premier dancer in 1888, and was a premier dancer (ballerina) in 1889-1902. He ...

, ballerina (died

1933 Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ...

) *

Ebba De la Gardie Ebba De la Gardie (27 June 1867 – 16 December 1928) was a Swedish journalist. She has been called the first society reporter in Sweden.Berger, Margareta, Pennskaft: kvinnliga journalister i svensk dagspress 1690-1975 enholders: Female journal ...

, reporter (died

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...

)

Deaths

* 4 January -

Marianne Ehrenström Mariana Maximiliana Christiana Carolina Lovisa "Marianne" Ehrenström (; 9 December 1773 – 4 January 1867), was a Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, memoir writer and lady-in-waiting. She was a member of the Ac ...

, artist (born

1773 Events January–March * January 1 – The hymn that becomes known as '' Amazing Grace'', at this time titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by curate John Newton in the town of Olney, Buck ...

) * 3 October - Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (born

1777 Events January–March * January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second ...

) *

Anna Göransdotter Anna Göransdotter (1797–1867) was a Swedish textile artist. Alm, Göran (red.), Signums svenska konsthistoria d 9Karl Johanstidens konst, Signum, Lund, 1999 She lived in the Föllinge parish in Jämtland Jämtland () is a historical pro ...

, textile artist (born

1797 Events January–March * January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, is signed at Algiers (''see also'' 1796). * January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Repu ...

) * Lovisa Mathilda Nettelbladt, writer (born 1814)

References

Years of the 19th century in Sweden

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