Events from the year 1868 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Charles XV
Events
19 September – inauguration of Dalsland Canal. 1 November – Folk high school introduced in Sweden. Bladin's International School United Methodist Church of Sweden 30 November – A bronze statue of King Charles XII is unveiled in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården park.
Births January 19 – Ebba Atterbom, translator and educator (died 1961) February 23 – Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Cabaret singer and movie director (died 1947) March 12 – Mary Karadja, writer, spiritualist and princess (died 1943). April 7 – Herman Bernhard Lundborg, physician and a race biologist (died 1943) April 25 – Ernst Linder, army general who served in the Swedish Army from 1887 to 1918 (died 1943) June 29 – Gustaf Nordenskiöld, scholar who was the first to scientifically study the ancient Pueblo ruins in Mesa Verde (died 1895) July 24 – Axel Elof Jäderholm, zoologist and botanist (died 1927) September 6 – Axel Hägerström, philosopher (died 1939) November 15 – Josef Hammar, military surgeon and adventurer (died 1927) October 18 – Ernst Didring, leader of the Swedish Red Cross for prisoners of the war between 1915 and 1920. (died 1931) December 12 – Axel Petersson Döderhultarn, one of the recognized masters of wood carving (died 1925) December 22 – Gustaf Fjæstad, Swedish painter (died 1948)
Deaths 3 April – Franz Berwald, composer (born 1796) Sofia Ahlbom, artist (born 1803) Maria Fredrica von Stedingk, composer (born 1799)
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