1872 in Sweden
Appearance
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Years: | 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 |
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Events from the year 1872 in Sweden
Events
- 27 February - Betty Pettersson is accepted as a student at the Uppsala university, and thereby becomes the first female university student in Sweden.[1]
- - Women are granted unlimited right to choose marriage partner without the need of any permission from her family, and arranged marriages are thereby banned (women of the nobility, however, are not granted the same right until 1882).[2]
- - Folk schools are given state support.[3]
- - Linköping Central Station is completed
Births
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- 1 May – Hugo Alfvén, musician (died 1960)
Deaths
- 22 March - Karolina Bock, actress (born 1792)
- 3 April – Henriette Widerberg, opera primadonna (born 1796)
- 3 September - Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (born 1801)
- 20 November – Lars Johan Hierta, publisher (born 1801)
- Helena Eldrup, educator (born 1800)
References
- ^ Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare (Swedish women: Predecessors, successors) Lund: Signum 1990. (ISBN 91-87896-03-6) (In Swedish)
- ^ Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 9. Fruktodling - Gossensass / 1139-1140 (1908)
- ^ Hadenius, Stig, Nilsson, Torbjörn & Åselius, Gunnar, Sveriges historia: vad varje svensk bör veta, Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1996