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1850 in Sweden
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Other events of 1850
Timeline of Swedish history
thumb|300px|Norrbrobasaren (1850)
thumb|298x298px|Drawing room scene painted by Johan Zacharias Blackstadius (1850)
Events from the year 1850 in Sweden
Incumbents
Monarch – Oscar I
Events
29 January – 'The Blizzard Tuesday', or 'Stormy Tuesday,' strikes large parts of central and southern Sweden, killing roughly 100 people.
19 June – The wedding between Crown Prince Charles and Louise of the Netherlands.Lovisa, urn:sbl:9717, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Nils F Holm), hämtad 2013-11-01.
30 July – First issue of Hallandsposten.
September – Outside the village of Särna, the toddler Jon Ersson encounters a female brown bear and her cubs. Believing them to be dogs, Ersson feeds and lies with them. In 1895 Alice Tegnér chronicles the event in her children's song "Mother's little Olle."
Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad is founded.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sweden is established in Sweden.
The harpist Pauline Åhman becomes the first female instrumentalist employed at the Royal Swedish Chapel orchestra Kungliga Hovkapellet.
Births
17 February – Ann-Margret Holmgren, author, feminist and pacifist (died 1940)
6 March – Victoria Benedictsson, writer (died 1888)
23 April – Agda Montelius, philanthropist and women's rights activist (died 1920)
12 November – Calla Curman, host of a literary salon (died 1935)
Deaths
15 February – Elisabeth Forsselius, actress (born 1771)
13 May – Erik Jansson, leader of a Swedish pietist sect that emigrated to the United States in 1846 (born 1808)
Undated
Anna Carlström, innkeeper and brothel madam (born 1780)
References
External links
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Category:Years of the 19th century in Sweden
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