Events from the year 1853 in
Sweden
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Incumbents
*
Monarch
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–
Oscar I
Events
* The first
Telegraphy
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net are being constructed.
* The first
Gasworks
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Early gasworks
Coal ...
in Sweden.
*
Street light
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s by
gas lighting are introduced in the capital.
* Coffee brand
Gevalia
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is launched.
* The choir ''
Orphei Drängar
Sångsällskapet Orphei Drängar (OD) is a Swedish male voice choir and singing society based in Uppsala, Sweden. While best known for its high quality performances of the classical repertoire, OD sings music of all genres in many different langua ...
'' is founded.
* The profession of teacher at public primary and elementary schools are opened to both sexes.
[Inger Hultgren (Swedish): Kvinnors organisation och samhällets beslutsprocess (1982)]
*
1853 Stockholm cholera outbreak.
Births
* 3 January -
Sophie Elkan
Sophie Elkan née Salomon (3 January 1853, Gothenburg –5 April 1921, Gothenburg), was a Swedish writer and translator.
Life
Sophie Salomon was born to the merchant Alexander Salomon and Henriette Abrahamson: her parents had migrated to Swe ...
, writer (died
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil.
** The Spanish lin ...
)
* 15 February -
Edvard Swartz
Edvard Maurits Swartz (15 February 1826, Stockholm – 14 December 1897, Stockholm), was a Swedish stage actor. He was one of the star actors of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in the mid 19th century.
Life
Edvard Swartz became a student of the Roya ...
, stage actor (died
1897
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...
)
* 20 February -
Amanda Röntgen-Maier
Amanda Röntgen-Maier (20 February 1853 – 15 July 1894) was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female graduate in music direction from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1872.
Biogr ...
, violinist and composer (died
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
)
* 17 May -
Carolina Östberg
Carolina Östberg (17 May 1853 – 27 February 1924) was a Swedish opera singer and singing teacher. She was nationally and internationally famous and belonged to the elite members of the Royal Swedish Opera
Life
Carolina Östberg was the daug ...
, opera singer (died
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
)
* 28 May -
Carl Larsson, painter (died
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...
)
* 11 June -
Alma Åkermark
Alma Mathilda Åkermark (11 June 1853, Forshälla parish – 4 June 1933, Oscar Fredriks parish) was a Swedish editor, feminist, writer, journalist and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder of the radical feminist women's paper '' Framåt ...
, feminist and editor (died
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
)
* 10 September -
Gertrud Adelborg
Gertrud Virginia Adelborg (10 September 1853 in Karlskrona – 25 January 1942) was a Swedish teacher, feminist and leading member of the women's rights movement.
Biography
Gertrud Adelborg was born at Karlskrona in Blekinge County, Sweden. She ...
, leading member of the women's rights movement (died
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
)
* -
Maria Westberg, ballerina (died
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
)
Deaths
* -
Maria Johanna Görtz
Maria Johanna Görtz, also known as ''Jeanette Görtz'', (1783–1853), was a Swedish artist, still life painter and drawing artist. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.
Born to Cup-bearer
A cup-bearer was historically an of ...
, painter (born
1783
Events
January–March
* January 20 – At Versailles, Great Britain signs preliminary peace treaties with the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain.
* January 23 – The Confederation Congress ratifies two October 8, ...
)
* -
Jeanette Wässelius
Marie Jeanette Wässelius (23 August 1784 – 5 December 1853) was a Swedish opera singer. She is referred to as the leading prima donna of the Royal Swedish Opera in the early 19th-century. She was a ''Hovsångare'' (1815) as well as an ...
, opera singer (born
1784
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea.
* January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Brit ...
)
*
Sven Erlandsson
Sven Erlandsson (1768–1853) was a Swedish artist (tapestry maker).
Son of the gardener Erland Hallberg and Anna Maria Kristoffersdotter and the brother of Katarina Erlandsdotter (1771-1848) and Lisa Erlandsdotter
Lisa Erlandsdotter (1774– ...
textile artist (born
1768
Events
January–March
* January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London.
* February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House of Rep ...
)
References
Years of the 19th century in Sweden
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