Events from the year 1839 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Charles XIV John
Events The revised edition of the radical novel Det går an by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, first published in 1822, is published Liljeholmens Stearinfabriks AB Stockholms Lyceum
Births 2 March - Victoria Bundsen, opera alto (died 1909) 18 April - Lotten Edholm, composer and a pioneer within the Swedish Red Cross (died 1930) 21 May - Nils Christoffer Dunér, astronomer (died 1914) 24 August - Sofie Johannesdotter, serial killer (died 1876) 2 November - Augusta Braunerhjelm, playwright (died 1929) 30 December - Victor Hartman, actor (died 1898) Charlotte Yhlen, doctor (died 1919) Hulda Mellgren, industrialist (died 1918)
Deaths 7 February - Karl August Nicander, poet (born 1799) 30 June - Johan Olof Wallin, minister, orator, poet and later Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala (born 1779) Jacquette Löwenhielm, royal mistress (born 1797) Pär Aron Borg, pioneer in the education for the blind and deaf (born 1776) Pehr Henrik Ling, called the "father of Swedish athletics"
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