Events from the year 1861 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Charles XV
Events A decision is taken to construct Strandvägen in Stockholm.Hall, Thomas (1999). Huvudstad i omvandling – Stockholms planering och utbyggnad under 700 år (in Swedish). Stockholm: Sveriges Radios förlag. . The inauguration of the women teachers' training college Högre lärarinneseminariet, the first institution of higher learning open to women in Sweden. The dentist profession is opened to women.Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare (Swedish women: predecessors, successors) Lund: Signum 1990. () (Swedish) Danviken Hospital is closed. March - The king grants the con artist Helga de la Brache an annual pension from the foreign department of 2,400 Swedish riksdaler a year, (the amount, from the beginning 1.200, was made larger in December 1869).Svensk uppslagsbok, Malmö 1931
Births 5 January - Anna Pettersson, lawyer (died 1929) 2 June - Concordia Selander, actress and theater manager (died 1935) 24 April - Hedda Andersson, second female doctor in Sweden (died 1950) 14 May - Valborg Olander, politician (died 1943) 29 October - Karolina Olsson, hibernator (died 1950) 11 November - Elsa Eschelsson, first female doctor of Laws (died 1911)
Deaths 17 January - Malla Silfverstolpe, salonnière (born 1782) 21 February - Lars Levi Læstadius, Sami writer 6 March - Carl Henrik Cantzler, Stockholm grosshandlare and tobacco manufacturer 8 April - Johan Henrik Munktell, industrialist and pianist 9 June - Count Carl Axel Löwenhielm, diplomat, army officer, and member of the Council of State 30 September - Per August Flensburg, Malmö businessman and manufacturer
References