1841 in Sweden

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Riddarholmsbron 1841a

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Strömparterren tecknad av Dardel 1841

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Stockholmspanorama 1841

Events from the year 1841 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XIV John

Events

• 10 June - The Stocks punishment, already restricted and generally fallen of use, is banned.
• 6 August - Swedish Road Administration is founded.
• - The state supported brothels London and Stadt Hamburg is closed.
• - Wendela Hebbe, regarded a pioneer of female reporters, is employed as a reporter at Aftonbladet.
• - First issue of the Barometern
• - Foundation of the shipping company Götaverken
• - The first issue of the Sundsvalls Tidning
• Blommorna vid vägen, by Herman Sätherberg
• Diodes och Lydia by Wilhelmina Stålberg
• Kyrkoinvigningen i Hammarby by Emilie Flygare-Carlén
• En modig qvinnas händelserika lefnad, Antecknad av Henne Sjelf by Anna Carlström
• Qvinnan utan förmyndare (Woman without Guardian) by Amelie von Strussenfelt

Births

• 19 February – Elfrida Andrée, first female organist (died 1929)
• 18 June - Hedvig Willman, actress (died 1887)
• 24 August – Anna Hierta-Retzius, women's right activist (died 1924)
• 8 September - Carl Snoilsky, poet (died 1903)
• 29 December - Rosalie Fougelberg, dentist (died 1911)

Deaths

• 12 January – Märta Helena Reenstierna, diarist (born 1753)
• 19 February – Ulrika Carolina Widström, poet (born 1764)
• 28 October - Johann Arfvedson, chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium (born 1792)
• – Mariana Koskull, royal mistress (born 1785)
• - Christina Fredenheim, singer (born 1762)