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1881 In Sweden
Events from the year 1881 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Arvid Posse Events * - Åre railway station opened * - Malexander Church Births *26 May – Sten Dehlgren, military officer and newspaper editor (d. 1947). * 8 July – Ruth Gustafson, social democrat, politician, social reformer (died 1960) * 9 July – Arvid Andersson, tug-of-war competitor (died 1956). * 29 August – Johan Hübner von Holst, sport shooter (died 1945). * 5 October – Florence Stephens, heiress and landowner (died 1979) * 18 November – Gösta Åsbrink, gymnast (died 1966). Deaths * 26 march - Lovisa Åhrberg, surgeon and doctor (born 1801) * - Sophia Magdalena Gardelius, damask weaver (born 1804) References Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881
Events January–March * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The Chilean army defeats Peruvian forces. * January 15 – War of the Pacific – Battle of Miraflores: The Chileans take Lima, capital of Peru, after defeating its second line of defense in Miraflores. * January 24 – William Edward Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, introduces his Coercion Bill, which temporarily suspends habeas corpus so that those people suspected of committing an offence can be detained without trial; it goes through a long debate before it is accepted February 2. * January 25 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. * February 13 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper ''La Citoyenne'' is published by Hubertine Auclert. * February 16 – The Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 In Sweden
Events from the year 1960 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustaf VI Adolf * Prime Minister – Tage Erlander Events *13 December – The motorway Vätterleden in Sweden is inaugurated. Births * 27 February – Pär Arvidsson, swimmer. * 12 April – Tomas Jonsson, ice hockey player. * 3 July – Håkan Loob, ice hockey player. * 26 August – Jan Brink, horse rider. Deaths * 4 February – Carl Björkman, sport shooter (born 1869). * 21 May – Rudolf Degermark, gymnast (born 1886). * 29 June – Karl Lindahl, gymnast (born 1890). * Signe Bergman, feminist (born 1869). * Ebba von Eckermann, feminist (born 1866). References Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ... Years of the 20th century in Sweden {{Sweden-year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 In Sweden
Events from the year 1881 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Arvid Posse Events * - Åre railway station opened * - Malexander Church Births *26 May – Sten Dehlgren, military officer and newspaper editor (d. 1947). * 8 July – Ruth Gustafson, social democrat, politician, social reformer (died 1960) * 9 July – Arvid Andersson, tug-of-war competitor (died 1956). * 29 August – Johan Hübner von Holst, sport shooter (died 1945). * 5 October – Florence Stephens, heiress and landowner (died 1979) * 18 November – Gösta Åsbrink, gymnast (died 1966). Deaths * 26 march - Lovisa Åhrberg, surgeon and doctor (born 1801) * - Sophia Magdalena Gardelius, damask weaver (born 1804) References Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1804 In Sweden
Events from the year 1804 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * - Jöns Jacob Berzelius discover cerium. * - Sofia Lovisa Gråå appointed principal of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy.Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare. Lund: Signum 1990. () ("Swedish Women; predecessors, pioneers") Births * 28 January - Carl Johan Billmark, painter (died 1870) * 8 May - Lapp-Nils, Sami musician (died 1870) * 19 August - Christina Enbom, opera singer (died 1880) * - Anna Johansdotter Norbäck, founder and leader of the religious movement '' Annaniterna'' (died 1879) * - Sophia Magdalena Gardelius, damask weaver (died 1881) Deaths * 4 April - Abraham de Broen, actor (born 1759) * - Anna Brita Wendelius, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Utile Dulci (born 1741) * - Marguerite Morel, ballerina, actress and singer (born 1737) * - Gustaf Björnram, mystic and spiritualist medium (born 1746) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Magdalena Gardelius
Sophia Magdalena Gardelius (1804-1881) was a Swedish damaskweaver. She is regarded as a pioneer within the damask weaving technique of Gotland. She married a farmer of Roma parish of Gotland in 1822. When her spouse was ruined, they moved to her parents, and she began to weave and sell damask to support the family. In 1832, she advertised that she manufactured damask for commission and accepted pupils in the art. The art of weaving damask was then new and popular. Gardelius composed her own patterns by mathematic measurements, and her weaving stools were constructed to adjust to her needs to handle a thousand patterns. Her weaving school and workshop was very successful, she became famous in contemporary Sweden and her clients included the queen, Josephine of Leuchtenberg Joséphine of Leuchtenberg (Joséphine Maximilienne Eugénie Napoléone de Beauharnais; 14 March 1807 – 7 June 1876) was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 to 8 July 1859 as the wife of King Osca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1801 In Sweden
Events from the year 1801 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf Events * The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is occupied by Great Britain. * Carl Gustaf af Leopold publishes the '' Afhandling om svenska stafsättet'' * The Second League of Armed Neutrality, an alliance of Denmark–Norway, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia dissolves. * Foundation of the ''Djurgårdsteatern'' in Stockholm, the only theater except the Royal Dramatic Theater allowed to function in the capital during the 1798–1842 royal theater monopoly.Nordensvan, Georg. Svensk teater och svenska skådespelare från Gustav III till våra dagar; Första bandet, 1772-1842 (in Swedish) Births * 22 January – Lars Johan Hierta, newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician (died 1872) * 1 February – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (died 1878) * 24 March – Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (died 1872) * 9 May – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (died 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovisa Åhrberg
Maria ''Lovisa'' Åhrberg or ''Årberg'' (17 May 1801 – 26 March 1881) was a Swedish surgeon and doctor. She was lawfully practicing surgeon long before it became formally permitted for women to study medicine at a university in 1870. Lovisa Åhrberg could be regarded as the first female physician in Sweden with formal permit from the authorities to practice medicine: however, she had no formal training, and the first woman physician with a university degree was to be Karolina Widerström. Biography Lovisa Åhrberg was born in Uppsala in Uppland as the daughter of Erik Årberg, a caretaker of the Uppsala University, and the cunning woman Britta Maria Upgren. Her grandmother had also reportedly been an active practitioner of "folk medicine" and nursing. In the early 19th-century, nurses were merely uneducated helpers to the doctors. During her childhood, Lovisa accompanied her mother to hospitals as well as visits to the houses of sick people. She was never formally a student ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gösta Åsbrink
Karl "Gösta" Åsbrink (18 November 1881 – 19 April 1966) was a Swedish gymnast and modern pentathlete who won a gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Åsbrink's 1908 gold medal was won in London for a team event, as the Swedish men's gymnastics team came in first. Four years later, competing before a home audience in 1912 Stockholm, he won an individual silver medal in the first contested Modern pentathlon of the Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var .... Åsbrink was a lieutenant of Swedish Army at the time and was later promoted to a major.Gösta Åsbrink S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 In Sweden
Events from the year 1979 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf * Prime Minister – Ola Ullsten, Thorbjörn Fälldin Events * 23 February – The comedy film ''Repmånad'', directed by Lasse Åberg, was released in Sweden. *23 April – the ABBA album '' Voulez-Vous'' released. *1 July – Sveriges Television is separated from Sveriges Radio. *16 September – The 1979 Swedish general election is held. *12 October – Ola Ullsten resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden, and is replaced with Thorbjörn Fälldin. *Date unknown – 1979 Star World Championships (sailing regatta) are held in Marstrand. Music *Date unknown – Sun Cats Swedish rock & roll band is founded. Film Births * 8 January – Hanna Ljungberg, international footballer * 9 January – Markus Larsson, alpine skier * 10 January – Henrik Tallinder, ice hockey player * 18 January – Andreas Tegström, footballer * 29 January – Andreas Thorstensson, entrepreneur * 23 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Stephens
Florence Elisabet Stephens (5 October 1881 – 2 April 1979) was a wealthy Swedish landowner, known as ''Fröken på Huseby'' ("the Lady of Huseby") for her estate at Huseby. She was the main figure in the Huseby Affair ( sv, Husebyskandalen, "Huseby scandal"), one of the most prominent court cases in Sweden during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Life Born in , Kronoberg County, Florence Stephens was the eldest of three daughters of the landowner and politician Joseph Stephens (1841–1934) by his marriage to Elisabeth Kreüger; her paternal grandfather, George Stephens (1813–1895), was an English academic, originally from Liverpool. Stephens and her sisters Mary and Maggie were educated by a governess, and although she had a good education in languages and was well read, she had no formal education in management or economics. She never married; she ran the household after her mother's death in 1911 and acted as her father's assistant and representative for three decades, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Hübner Von Holst
Johan Hübner von Holst (22 August 1881 – 13 June 1945) was a Swedish sport shooter who competed at the 1906, 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1906 he won the silver medal in the 30 metre duelling pistol event. He also participated in the following events: * 25 m rapid fire pistol – fifth place * 50 m pistol – tenth place * 20 m duelling pistol – 19th place * 25 m army pistol (standard model) – 21st place * Free rifle, free position – 25th place * 300 m army rifle 300 meter army rifle is a discontinued ISSF shooting event The International Shooting Sport Federation recognizes several shooting events, some of which have Olympic Games, Olympic status. They are divided into four disciplines: rifle, pistol, Cla ... – 26th place Two years later he was a member of the Swedish team which won the silver medal in the team small-bore rifle competition. He also participated in the following events: * Team pistol – fifth place * disappearing target small-bore rifl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvid Andersson (tug Of War)
Arvid Leander Andersson (9 July 1881 – 7 August 1956) was a Swedish policeman. He was the captain of the Swedish tug of war team that won the gold medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... References 1881 births 1956 deaths People from Strängnäs Municipality Tug of war competitors at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic tug of war competitors of Sweden Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in tug of war Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish people {{tugofwar-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
