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1900 In Sweden
Events from the year 1900 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström, Fredrik von Otter Events *27 April – The city plan for Kiruna, Sweden is adopted. *Date unknown – The newspaper ''Västerbottens-Kuriren'' is established. *Date unknown – Maternity leave for female industrial workers. *Date unknown – The Swedish branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is organized by Emilie Rathou. *Date unknown – The Malmö Women's Discussion Club, is founded by Elma Danielsson in Malmö. Births * 16 January – Helge Gustafsson, gymnast (died 1981). * 29 July – Eyvind Johnson, writer (died 1976) * 29 August – Åke Bergqvist, sailor (died 1975). * 26 October – Karin Boye, poet and novelist (died 1941) * 30 October – Ragnar Granit, physiologist (died 1991) Deaths * 2 April – Gustaf Åkerhielm, prime minister (born 1833) * 21 July - Aurore Storckenfeldt, reform pedagogue (born 1816) * 10 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2100. The year 1900 also marked the Year of the Rat on the Chinese calendar. Events January * January 2 ** The first electric bus becomes operational in New York City. ** U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy, to promote American trade with China. * January 3 – The United States Census estimates the country's population to be about 70 million people. * January 4 – Strikes in Belgium and Germany lead to mining riots. * January 5 – Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth's magnetism. * January 6 – Second Boer War: Boers attempt to end the Siege of Ladysmith, which leads to the Battle of Platrand. * January 8 – President William McKinle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helge Gustafsson
Bror Helge Gustafsson (16 January 1900 – 5 October 1981) was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... He was part of the Swedish team that won the gold medal in the Swedish system event. References 1900 births 1981 deaths Swedish male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Sweden Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Örebro {{Sweden-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 In Sweden
Events from the year 1900 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar II * Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström, Fredrik von Otter Events *27 April – The city plan for Kiruna, Sweden is adopted. *Date unknown – The newspaper ''Västerbottens-Kuriren'' is established. *Date unknown – Maternity leave for female industrial workers. *Date unknown – The Swedish branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is organized by Emilie Rathou. *Date unknown – The Malmö Women's Discussion Club, is founded by Elma Danielsson in Malmö. Births * 16 January – Helge Gustafsson, gymnast (died 1981). * 29 July – Eyvind Johnson, writer (died 1976) * 29 August – Åke Bergqvist, sailor (died 1975). * 26 October – Karin Boye, poet and novelist (died 1941) * 30 October – Ragnar Granit, physiologist (died 1991) Deaths * 2 April – Gustaf Åkerhielm, prime minister (born 1833) * 21 July - Aurore Storckenfeldt, reform pedagogue (born 1816) * 10 De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1846 In Sweden
Events from the year 1846 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Oscar I Events *28 June: The Church of Sweden Härnösand Cathedral is inaugurated. * December 22 - The guild system in Sweden is abolished by the ''Fabriks och Handtwerksordning'' and ''Handelsordningen''. * Trade and craft professions are opened to all unmarried women. * Adolf Eugene von Rosen and Georg Theodor Policron von Chiewitz proposes a regulation of Gamla stan. * The Swedish History Museum is founded. * Gothenburg becomes the first Swedish city to be lit up by voal gas.Hadenius, Stig, Nilsson, Torbjörn & Åselius, Gunnar, Sveriges historia: vad varje svensk bör veta, Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1996 * '' Den broderade plånboken'' by August Blanche * '' Dubbelgångaren'' av Fjodor Dostojevskij * '' Engelbrekt och hans dalkarlar'' by August Blanche * '' Läkaren'' by August Blanche * '' Magister Bläckstadius eller giftermåls-annonsen'' by August Blanche * '' Rika morbror'' by August Blanche * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Alin
Oscar Josef Alin (22 December 184631 December 1900) was a Swedish historian and politician. Life Alin was born in Falun, Sweden. In 1872 he completed his doctorate and became docent of political science, and in 1882 ''professor skytteanus'' of Government and Eloquence at Uppsala University. As ''professor skytteanus'' he succeeded Vilhelm Erik Svedelius, whom he also followed in the inspectorship of the university's Västmanland-Dalarna Nation. In September 1888 he was elected a member of the first chamber of the Riksdag, where he attached himself to the conservative protectionist Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations. ... party, over which, from the first, he exercised great authority. He retired from the Riksdag in 1899 to become ''rector magnificus'' of the university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1822 In Sweden
Events from the year 1822 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * Motala Verkstad is founded by Baltzar von Platen. * The piracy trial of Johanna Hård.Harrison, Dick (2007). ”Kvinnorna som blev pirater: två kvinnliga sjörövare står fram i vår historia : kaparredaren Ingela Gatenhielm och piratdrottningen Johanna Hård : båda visade att brott kan löna sig!”. Svenska turistföreningens årsbok "2007,": sid. 24-35. 0283-2976. ISSN 0283-2976. Libris 10633193 * Inauguration of the National Portrait Gallery (Sweden). * ''Amorina'' by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist. Births * 14 February 1822 – Betty Boije, concert contralto and composer (died 1854) * 13 February – Betty Linderoth, watchmaker (died 1900) * 3 April – Elma Ström, Swedish opera singer (died 1889) * 22 April – Bengt Nordenberg, painter (died 1902) Deaths * 13 March – Nils Lorens Sjöberg, poet (born 1754) * 16 March – Gustav Badin * Maria Nilsdotter i Ölmeskog, farmer an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Linderoth
Betty Linderoth, née Cedergren (Stockholm, 13 February 1822 – Stockholm, 10 December 1900), was a Swedish watchmaker. Betty Linderoth was the daughter of a watchmaker and educated as her father's apprentice and Journeyman. When she was mocked by her fellow students as a "watchmaker in skirts", she dressed in trousers and cut her hair. In 1844, she married the watchmaker Gustaf Vilhelm Linderoth (d. 1871) and became the master of his business in Stockholm. She studied in Paris and Switzerland and was later given the task to regularly perform the maintenance of the clocks of the customers. Among her customers were the queen, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, and Princess Eugenie of Sweden. The Linderoth company had the task to construct the clocks of the nations railway stations, which were in fact made by her. Betty Linderoth was appointed watchmaker to the court of Oscar II of Sweden and honorary member of the Stockholm Watchmaker Society (1889) and the Watchmaker Society of Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1816 In Sweden
Events from the year 1816 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIII Events * Sweden joins the Holy Alliance. * Inauguration of the ''Segerlindska teatern'' in Gothenburg.Teaterliv i Göteborg, Åke Pettersson 1992 Births * 3 February - Carl Olof Rosenius, preacher, author and editor (died 1868) * 18 March - Louise von Fersen, heiress (died 1879) * 12 June – Nils Blommér, painter (died 1853) * 23 June – Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, architect, painter and composer (died 1881) * 2 July - Wilhelmina Josephson, pianist (died 1906) * 20 September – Fredrik August Dahlgren, writer (died 1895) * - Jeanette Berglind, sign language teacher and principal (died 1903) * - Fredrika Limnell, salonnière, women's right activist, philanthropist (died 1897) * - Aurore Storckenfeldt, educator (died 1900) * - Edvard Stjernström, stage actor and theater director (died 1877) Deaths * 14 January – Rutger Macklean, a driving figure in the reorganization of agricultural lands in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurore Storckenfeldt
Hedvig Amalia Aurora "Aurore" Storckenfeldt (26 December 1816 in – 21 July 1900 in Jönköping) was a Swedish reform pedagogue. She founded the Storckenfeldtska skolan (The Storchefeldt School) in Jönköping, and served as its principal in 1847–1891, during which time it was regarded as one of the best educational institutions for females in the nation. Storckenfeldt is regarded as an important member of the pioneers of girl's education in the mid 19th century Sweden, who reformed the education of girls by establishing girls' schools which offered proper academic education for females, in contrast to the earlier girl's pensions shallow education. Life Aurore Storckenfeldt was the daughter of the nobleman and captain Johan Adam Storckenfeldt and Magdalena Christina Uggla. She was given the education regarded appropriate for a female of her class at the time: French language, the Bible and etiquette. However, she was given private lessons by her vicar in academic subjects, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1833 In Sweden
Events from the year 1833 in Sweden Incumbents * Monarch – Charles XIV John Events * Pilt Carin Ersdotter arrives to Stockholm where she attracts great attention as ''The beautiful Dalarna girl''.Lisbet Scheutz (2001 (2003) nuytgåva). Berömda och glömda stockholmskvinnor: sju stadsvandringar: 155 kvinnoporträtt. Stockholm: MBM. Libris 8392583 * - ''Törnrosens bok'' by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist Births * 21 March - Carl Stål, entomologist specialising in Hemiptera (died 1878) * 11 April - Fredrik von Otter, Prime Minister (died 1910) * July 24 - Gustaf Åkerhielm, Prime Minister (died 1900) * 21 October - Alfred Nobel, chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (died 1896) * 10 December - Ellen Anckarsvärd, women's rights activist (died 1898) * Rosalie Sjöman, photographer (died 1919) Deaths * 28 May - Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (born 1759) * 1 June - Rudolf Cederström, naval commander (born 1764) * 24 July - Hedda Wrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustaf Åkerhielm
Baron Johan Gustaf Nils Samuel Åkerhielm af Margaretelund (24 June 1833 – 2 April 1900) was a Swedish politician, a baron, a landowner, member of the Riksdag from 1859 to 1866 and from 1870 to 1900, a minister of finance from 1874 to 1875, a minister for foreign affairs in 1889, and a prime minister from 1889 to 1891. He was married to Ulrika Gyldenstolpe in 1860, with whom he had three children. Biography Gustaf Åkerhielm was born in Stockholm, son to Swedish cabinet member Gustaf Fredrik Åkerhielm and his wife, Elisabeth Sophia Anker. After diplomatic service in Saint Petersburg and Copenhagen, he had a successful political career, where he had a long succession of different positions in the government from a minister of finance from 1874 to 1875. In 1889 he was appointed to the position of minister for foreign affairs by Gillis Bildt, and in October of the same year, he became the new prime minister of Sweden. Åkerhielm sought to solve military defense issues, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnar Granit
Ragnar Arthur Granit (30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a Finnish-Swedish scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye". Early life and education Ragnar Arthur Granit was born on 30 October 1900 in Riihimäki, Finland, at the time part of the Russian Empire, into a Swedish-speaking Finnish family. Granit was raised in Oulunkylä, a suburb of the Finnish capital of Helsinki, and attended the Svenska normallyceum in Helsinki. Granit graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki in 1927. Career and research In 1940, when Finland became the target of a massive Soviet attack during the Winter War, Granit sought refuge – and peaceful surroundings for his studies and research work – in Stockholm, the capital of neighbouring Sweden, at the age of 40. In 1941, Granit rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
