Events from the year 1815 in Sweden

Incumbents Monarch – Charles XIII

Events

23 October - Swedish Pomerania ceded to Prussia. - Inauguration of the Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola in Gothenburg, a school founded to educate women to self-supporting professionals and the third to offer serious education to women.Gunhild Kyle (1972). Svensk flickskola under 1800-talet. Göteborg: Kvinnohistoriskt arkiv. ISBN - Sophie Daguin and André Isidore Carey are recruited to the Royal Swedish Ballet.

Births 16 January – Uno Troili, painter (died 1875) 10 May – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler (died 1896) 17 June – Thekla Knös, writer (died 1880) 18 December – Egron Lundgren, watercolor painter (died 1875) - Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess), (died 1892) - Emilie Risberg, educator and writer (died 1890) - Lotten Wennberg, philanthropist (died 1864)

Deaths

28 May – Charlotta Cedercreutz, artist (born 1736) 10 August - Birger Martin Hall, botanist (born 1741)

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