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1813 In Sweden
Events that occurred during the year 1813 in Sweden, including births and deaths. Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIII Events * First publication of the newspaper ''Göteborgs-Posten''. * 7 December - Battle of Bornhöved (1813). * 13 December - Swedish East India Company is dissolved. * Unmarried women of legal majority, "Unmarried maiden, who has been declared of legal majority", are given the right to vote in the ''sockestämma'' (local parish council, the predecessor of the communal councils), and the ''kyrkoråd'' (church councils).Ann Margret Holmgren: Kvinnorösträttens historia i de nordiska länderna (1920) * The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry is founded. * The Royal Central Gymnastics Institute is founded. * The notorious criminal transvestite Lasse-Maja is arrested and becomes famous. Births *8 February - Jacob Georg Agarah, botanist (died 1901) 1813-1901 *21 May - Oscar Ahnfelt, composer and music publisher (died 1882) 1813-1882 *19 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1813
Events January–March * January 18–January 23 – War of 1812: The Battle of Frenchtown is fought in modern-day Monroe, Michigan between the United States and a British and Native American alliance. * January 24 – The Philharmonic Society (later the Royal Philharmonic Society) is founded in London. * January 28 – Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'' is published anonymously in London. * January 31 – The Assembly of the Year XIII is inaugurated in Buenos Aires. * February – War of 1812 in North America: General William Henry Harrison sends out an expedition to burn the British vessels at Fort Malden by going across Lake Erie via the Bass Islands in sleighs, but the ice is not hard enough, and the expedition returns. * February 3 – Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and his Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers gain a largely symbolic victory against a Spanish royalist army in the Battle of San Lorenzo. * February 7 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 In Sweden
Events from the year 1859 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Oscar I of Sweden, Oscar I, then Charles XV of Sweden, Charles XV Events * 8 July – Charles XV of Sweden, Charles XV succeeded his father Oscar I of Sweden * The Swedish Art Music Society is founded. * Inauguration of the ''Stora Teatern'' in Gothenburg. * The beginning of the ''Tidskrift för hemmet'', the first women's magazine in the Nordic countries. * The post of college teacher and lower official at public institutions are open to women. * The first institute for the intellectually disabled is founded by Sophia Wilkens. * The first seminar for adult women, ''Lärokurs för fruntimmer'' is opened in the capital, resulting in the foundation of the Royal Seminary two years later. * Women are explicitly permitted to engage freely and without restrictions in any type of retail business in both the cities as well as the countryside and to manage village general stores without inheritin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
