Events from the year 1869 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Charles XV
Events
10 July – Gävle is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless. Malmö SS is founded. Women are allowed to work in the railway office.Axianne Thorstenson (1918), Kvinnornas Stallning Inom Yrkena (PDF), Trykeri-A.-B. Ferm.
Births 10 April – Signe Bergman, women's right activist (died 1960) 28 June – Lydia Wahlström, historian and women's rights activist (died 1954) 2 July – Hjalmar Söderberg, writer (died 1941) 21 October – Stina Berg, actress (died 1930) 6 December – Otto Nordenskjöld, geologist, geographer and polar explorer (died 1928)
Deaths
28 January – Sophie Bolander, writer (born 1807) 22 September – Ulrika Sofia De Geer, countess and salonnière (born 1793) 12 November – Carl Georg Brunius, classical scholar, art historian, archaeologist and architect (born 1793)
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