Events from the year 1860 in

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Incumbents

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–

Charles XV Charles XV also Carl (''Carl Ludvig Eugen''); Swedish: ''Karl XV'' and Norwegian: ''Karl IV'' (3 May 1826 – 18 September 1872) was King of Sweden (''Charles XV'') and Norway, there often referred to as Charles IV, from 8 July 1859 until his dea ...

Events

* A.E. Schwabitz and A.E. Rudberg produces a proposal for the regulation of Gamla stan. * The

Dissenter Acts (Sweden) Dissenter Acts ( sv, Dissenterlagarna) were laws, enacted by the King of Sweden with the consent of the Swedish Parliament, which gave nonconformists who wanted to leave the then established Church of Sweden the right to do so, provided that the ...

allow citizens to leave the state church. *

Kamewa AB Karlstads Mekaniska Werkstad (''trans.'' Karlstad Mechanical Works Ltd), known as Kamewa, was a Swedish manufacturing company in the city of Kristinehamn. Kamewa started as a brand name of the controllable-pitch propellers manufactured by KMW ...

is created. *

Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club ( sv, Göteborgs Kungliga Segelsällskap, ''GKSS'') is a yacht club in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was founded in 1860. Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club resides in Långedrag and Marstrand. Royal Gothenburg Yacht Club organises S ...

is founded. * The internal passport, until then needed to travel inside the country, is abolished. *

Jeanette Berglind Johanna "Jeanette" Apollonia Berglind (21 August 1816, in Stockholm – 14 September 1903, in Stockholm), was a Swedish sign language teacher and principal. In 1860, she founded one of the first schools for the deaf and mute in her country: '' Ty ...

founds the pioneer institution ''

Tysta Skolan ('The Silent School') was a private school for deaf-mute children founded in 1860 by educator Johanna (Jeanette) Berglind in Stockholm, Sweden. The name refers to the initial teaching method, which was described as the "write-sign method". Fro ...

'' (Silent School) for the deaf in Stockholm.

Births

* 21 January –

Karl Staaff Karl Albert Staaff (21 January 1860 – 4 October 1915) was a Swedish liberal politician and lawyer. He was chairman of the Liberal Coalition Party (1907–1915) and served twice as Prime Minister of Sweden (1905–1906 and 1911–1914). Staaff ...

, prime minister (died

1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ...

) * 7 February –

Anna Norrie Anna Hilda Charlotta Norrie née Petterson (1860–1957) was a Swedish actress and operetta singer. After training under Julius Günther at the Sockholm Conservatory, she took singing lessons with Fritz Arlberg. She was engaged by the Nya teat ...

, actress (died

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...

) * 18 February –

Anders Zorn Anders Leonard Zorn (18 February 1860 – 22 August 1920) was a Swedish painter. He attained international success as a painter, sculptor, and etching artist. Among Zorn's portrait subjects include King Oscar II of Sweden and three American ...

, painter (died

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...

) * 28 May –

Sigrid Elmblad Sigrid Agneta Sofia Elmblad, born Sigrid Agneta Sofia Pettersson, (28 May 1860 – 23 May 1926) was a Swedish people, Swedish journalist, poet, translator and writer, who translated ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (''The Ring of the Nibelung'') into S ...

, writer and translator (died

1926 Events January * January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. * January 8 **Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz. ** Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne, the last monarch of V ...

) * 31 July - Ellen Hartman, actress (died

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

) *

Elin Engström Augusta Eleonora "Elin" Engström (1860–1956) was a Swedish politician (Social Democrat) and trade unionist. She belonged to the pioneers of the labour movement, the Social Democratic movement, as well as the trade unionism and women's rights m ...

, politician (Social Democrat), trade unionist and women's right activist (died

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

) * 17 December -

Carl Lindhagen Carl Albert Lindhagen (17 December 1860 – 11 March 1946) was a Swedish lawyer, politician, and pacifist. Carl Lindhagen was the chief magistrate (''borgmästare'') of Stockholm 1903–1930 (i.e. a legal position, not mayor). Life Lindhagen ...

, politician (died

)

Deaths

* 11 May –

Israel Hwasser Israel Hwasser (17 September 1790 in Älvkarleby - 11 May 1860 in Uppsala) was a Swedish medical doctor and professor, who became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1854. Hwasser was the son of the vicar in Älvkarleby parish, Lars Adolph Hwasser ...

, physician and writer, member of the Swedish Academy (born

1790 Events January–March * January 8 – United States President George Washington gives the first State of the Union address, in New York City. * January 11 – The 11 minor states of the Austrian Netherlands, which took p ...

) * 10 August –

Sara Augusta Malmborg Sara Augusta Malmborg, née ''von Gertten'' (20 May 1810, Björsbyholm in Sunne, Sweden, Sunne in Värmland - 10 August 1860, Våxnäs) was a Swedish singer, pianist and painter. Malmborg was born to colonel lieutenant nobleman Emil Adam von Gerd ...

, singer, pianist and painter (born

1810 Events January–March * January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales. * January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic. * Janua ...

) * 17 December –

Désirée Clary Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary ( sv, Eugenia Bernhardina Desideria; 8 November 1777 – 17 December 1860) was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 5 February 1818 to 8 March 1844 as the wife of King Charles XIV John. Charles John was a former Fre ...

, queen dowager (born

1777 Events January–March * January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a second ...

) * -

Kloka Anna Anna Johansdotter or Anna Jonsdotter (15 July 1797 – 1860), was a Swedish cunning woman and medium. She has been the subject of much legends and myths. She is known and referred to by her nickname ''Kloka Anna'' ("Wise Anna"). Biography An ...

, cunning woman (born

1797 Events January–March * January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, is signed at Algiers (''see also'' 1796). * January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Re ...

) * -

Ebba d'Aubert Ebba d'Aubert, née ''Bergström'' (1819–1860) was a Swedish concert pianist. She was married to the second concert conductor at the Kungliga Hovkapellet, violinist Theodor Adolf Eduard d’Aubert. She became an Associé of the Royal Swedish Ac ...

, pianist (born

1819 Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. * January 29 – Si ...

)

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