1847 in Sweden

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Mälarvarvet 1847

Events from the year 1847 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• 18 January – Brottslingarne by Emelie Flygare Carlén on Mindre teatern in Stockholm.[1]
• 24 May – Hittebarnet by August Blanche on Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm.[2]
• 13 December – Mor och döttrar eller Namnförvexlingen by Jeanette Stjernström in Mindre teatern in Stockholm.[3]
• Jenny Lind returns to Sweden with a great tour.
• The first bureau for registration as medical examination of prostitutes is opened in the capital: from 1859, all prostitutes are forced to registration. [4]
• Poor Care Regulation of 1847 replace the Beggar Regulation of 1642 and reorganize the poor relief system. Rotegång is banned for children.
• The Åhlinska skolan is founded in Stockholm by Karin Åhlin and her sisters.
• Aurore Storckenfeldt open the Storckenfeldtska skolan.
• Slavery is abolished on the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
• The perfume and cosmetic company Antoinette W Nording is founded by Antoinette Nording.
• - 1846 och 1946 by August Blanche
• - Barnen i nya skogen by Frederick Marryat.
• - De begge aristokraterna by Wilhelmina Stålberg
• - Flickan i Stadsträdgården by August Blanche
• - Herr Dardanell och hans upptåg på landet by August Blanche
• - Stockholm, Westerås och Upsala by August Blanche
• - Tegnérs minne by August Blanche
• - Vålnaden by August Blanche

Births

• 1 May – Hildegard Björck, first Swedish woman to complete an academic degree (died 1920)
• 12 June – Hulda Lundin, tailor and educator (died 1921)
• 14 August – Karl Oskar Medin, paediatrician (died 1927)
• 20 October – Oscar Swahn, shooter (died 1927)
• Anna Rönström, educator and mathematician (died 1920)
• Sophie Cysch, singer (died 1917)

Deaths

• 9 February - Ulrica Eleonora Rålamb, politically active countess and spy (born 1769)
• 17 April - Maria Franck, actress (born 1769)
• 23 April – Erik Gustaf Geijer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer (born 1783)
• 18 June - Lisette Stenberg, actress and pianist (born 1770)
• 14 August – Frans Michael Franzén, writer (born 1772)
• 25 December – Carl Gustaf von Brinkman, diplomat (born 1764)
• - Amelie von Strussenfelt, writer (born 1803)

References

1. ”Dramawebben”. Läst 24 mars 2011.
2. ”Dramawebben”. Läst 24 mars 2011.
3. ”Dramawebben”. Läst 24 mars 2011.
4. Svanström, Yvonne, Offentliga kvinnor: prostitution i Sverige 1812-1918 [Public Women: Prostitution in Sweden 1812-1918], Ordfront, Stockholm, 2006 (Swedish)