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.Margareta Ståhl m.fl.: Strejker och strejkvisor 1873–1909, Arkivet för Folkets historia, 1974. 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.Emilie Rathou, urn:sbl:7563, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Hjördis Levin), hämtad 2015-05-30. The Fotografiska Föreningen (Photographic Society) is founded: the first woman, Anna Hwass, is made a member of the board.Dahlman, Eva: Kvinnliga pionjärer, osynliga i fotohistorien 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)
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