1867 in Sweden

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Illustration of starvation in northern Sweden, Famine of 1866–1868

Caricature from the paper Fäderneslandet 14 December 1867, criticizing the unjust distribution of the relief help committees: the relief help are given first to county governor, and are thereafter given first to the wealthy officials and rich farmers and last, when only an handful is left, to the poor people truly in need.

Events from the year 1867 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

Events

• 1 August - Inauguration of the new Uppsala University Hospital.
• - The Lantmanna Party is created.
• - Emmy Rappe becomes head nurse in the newly established Surgical Clinic at the Uppsala Academic Hospital, where she opened the first professional training courses for nurses in Sweden.
• - The great Famine of 1866–68 spreads from Finland to Sweden, where it lasts until 1868. This is the last famine to take place in Sweden.
• - The great Swedish emigration to the United States begun, in part caused by the great famine.
• - Helsingborgs Dagblad is founded.
• - Augusta Lundin open her fashion studio in Stockholm.

Births

• 26 September – Anna Paues, philologist (died 1945)
• 30 September – Gulli Petrini, physicist, women's right activist and politician (died 1941)
• 13 December – Jenny Brandt, ballerina (died 1933)

Deaths

• 4 January - Marianne Ehrenström, artist (born 1773)