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1876 In Sweden
Events from the year 1876 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Louis Gerhard De Geer Events *20 March - Louis Gerhard De Geer becomes the first Prime Minister of Sweden. *Date unknown - Lars Magnus Ericsson founds Ericsson. *Date unknown - Freight Line Through Skåne *Date unknown - ''Upsala-Lenna Jernväg'' *Date unknown - The starting point of the hibernation of Karolina Olsson Births * 21 January – Mathias Taube, actor and artist (died 1934) * 11 April - Torine Torines, mechanic (died 1944) * 10 November - Anna Johansson-Visborg, trade union worker, women's rights activist and politician (social democrat) (died 1953) * Anna Sissak-Bardizbanian, reporter (died 1919) * Mathilda Staël von Holstein, lawyer (died 1953) Deaths * 10 February - August Söderman, composer (died 1832 Events January–March * January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. * January 13 – The Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876
Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs is formed at a meeting in Chicago; it replaces the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first president. * February 2 – Third Carlist War – Battle of Montejurra: The new commander General Fernando Primo de Rivera marches on the remaining Carlist stronghold at Estella, where he meets a force of about 1,600 men under General Carlos Calderón, at nearby Montejurra. After a courageous and costly defence, Calderón is forced to withdraw. * February 14 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. * February 19 – Third Carlist War: Government troops under General Primo de Rivera drive through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1934 In Sweden
Events from the year 1934 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustaf V * Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson Events * Dissolution of ''Välgörande fruntimmerssällskapet''. * The Swedish Social Democratic Party Wins the General Election Popular culture Theatre * Gothenburg City Theatre opened Sports * 16–18 February – The men's World Figure Skating Championships took place in Stockholm * 20–25 February – FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1934 in Sollefteå * 3–4 August – The 1934 World Archery Championships were held in Båstad Births * 22 March – May Britt, actress * 21 May – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * 25 May – Sven Erlander, mathematician (died 2021) * 28 May – Torsten Engberg, military officer (died 2018) * 16 June – Evy Berggren, gymnast * 22 June – Ragnar Svensson, Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden * 5 July – Erik Uddebom, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1832 In Sweden
Events from the year 1832 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * 26 September - Inauguration of the Göta Canal. * The trade with meat, bread and drink is liberalized in 37 Swedish cities.Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013 * First issue of the ''Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning'' Births * 23 January - Charlotte Pousette, stage actress (died 1877) * 17 July - August Söderman, composer (died 1876) * 3 October - Lina Sandell, writer (died 1903) * 12 November - Nancy Edberg, pioneer swimmer (died 1892) * 18 November - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Arctic explorer (died 1901) * 4 October - Thorborg Rappe, pioneer in the education of students with Intellectual disability (died 1902) * Amanda Rylander, actress (died 1920) Deaths * 22 February - Charlotta Cederström, artist (born 1760) * Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie, courtier (born 1761) References Years of the 19th century in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Söderman
(Johan) August Söderman (17 July 1832 in Stockholm – 10 February 1876 in Stockholm) has traditionally been seen as the pre-eminent Swedish composer of the Romantic generation, known especially for his lieder and choral works, based on folk material, and for his theatre music, such as the incidental music to Ludvig Josephson's ''Marsk Stigs döttrar'' ("Marshal Stig's Daughter"), 1866, or his ''Svenskt festspel'' ("Swedish Festival Music"). The son of a musical father and a pupil of the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm, he studied piano, but mastered the oboe and violin as well. In 1856–57 he studied counterpoint at the Leipzig Conservatory with Ernst Richter; there, in a musical culture that bore the imprint of Mendelssohn, he became familiar with the music of Robert Schumann and also with that of Richard Wagner. On his return to Stockholm he worked as a theatre conductor, and at the Royal Swedish Opera as choirmaster and eventually assistant conductor. He wrote seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilda Staël Von Holstein
Christina Mathilda Staël von Holstein (1876–1953) was a Swedish lawyer. She was the second woman to become a lawyer in Sweden, the first being Eva Andén. She was known as a feminist throughout her lifetime. Biography She was born in Kristianstad as the daughter of the nobleman and Colonel Axel Staël von Holstein and Cecilia Nordenfeldt and grew up in Värmland. She was orphaned early and left with responsibility for her eleven siblings, and never married. She was a correspondent at a law firm, then an assistant and an accountant at the Stockholm City Health Board. She became a Candidate of Law in Stockholm in 1918. She was also a member of the Fredrika Bremer Association and chairman of the Stockholm Women's Association. From 1919 to 1923 she was a partner in Eva Andén's law firm. As a lawyer, she primarily worked on family law and property issues. One of the biggest problems for women to obtain government office during this time was that the law defined the applicant fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 In Switzerland
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Bratislava, Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY Iolaire, HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2–January 22, 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation (1918–1919), Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Faisal I of Iraq, Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionism, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine (region), Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
