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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 inheriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859
Events January–March * January 21 – José Mariano Salas (1797–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * January 24 ( O. S.) – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza (Romania since 1866, final unification takes place on December 1, 1918; Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time). * January 28 – The city of Olympia is incorporated in the Washington Territory of the United States of America. * February 2 – Miguel Miramón (1832–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * February 4 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the ''Codex Sinaiticus'', a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt. * February 14 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. * February 12 – The Mekteb-i Mülkiye School is founded in the Ottoman Empire. * February 17 – French naval forces under Charles Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
