1853 in Sweden

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See also:	Other events of 1853 Timeline of Swedish history

Events from the year 1853 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

Events

• The first telegraphy net was being constructed.
• The first gasworks in Sweden were implemented.
• Street lights by gas lighting were introduced in the capital.
• Coffee brand Gevalia was launched.
• The choir Orphei Drängar was founded.
• The profession of teacher at public primary and elementary schools were opened to both sexes.
• 1853 Stockholm cholera outbreak.

Births

• 3 January – Sophie Elkan, writer (died 1921)
• 3 February – Maria Westberg, ballerina (died 1893)
• 15 February – Edvard Swartz, stage actor (died 1897)
• 20 February – Amanda Röntgen-Maier, violinist and composer (died 1894)
• 17 May – Carolina Östberg, opera singer (died 1924)
• 28 May – Carl Larsson, painter (died 1919)
• 11 June – Alma Åkermark, feminist and editor (died 1933)
• 10 September – Gertrud Adelborg, leading member of the women's rights movement (died 1942)

Deaths

• 15 February – Frans Preumayr, musician and conductor (born 1782)

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  'The Artist's Study Portfolio' by Niklas Robert Leffler

  7 March – Mauritz Frumerie, medal engraver and lithographer (born 1775)
• 9 April – Pehr Axel Fröst, priest, theologian, and singer (born 1802)
• 15 April – Alexis Lindblom, philosopher and botanist (born 1807)
• 19 April – Sven Erlandsson, tapestry maker (born 1768)
• 30 April – Nils Petter Ehrnberg, industrialist (born 1804)
• 4 May – Thure Gabriel Adlerbrant, jurist and councillor (born 1780)
• 15 May – Johan Abraham Aleander, cartoonist (born 1766)
• 17 May – Claes Himberg, artist (born 1787)
• 5 June – Maria Johanna Görtz, painter (born 1783)
• 8 June – Gustaf Keyser, merchant and missionary (born 1785)
• 12 June – Bengt Andersson, merchant and politician (born 1795)
• 16 August – Johannes Swartz, manufacturer (born 1790)
• 18 August – Anna Myhrman, artist (born 1785)
• 25 August – Johan Leonard Belfrage, printmaker (born 1800)
• 29 August – Magnus Fürst, physician (born 1823)
• 2 September – Johan Peter Ericsson, organist and composer (born 1806)
• 15 September – Ludvig Persson Lundgren, medal engraver (born 1789)
• 17 September – Maria Christina Strömberg, ballet dancer and actress (born 1777)
• 23 September – Gustaf Fredrik Åkerhielm, colonel and theatre director (born 1776)
• 25 September – Fredrik Blom, military officer and architect (born 1781)
• 27 September – Gudmund Leonard Silverstolpe, poet (born 1815)
• 18 October – Lars Augustin Bång, shipbuilder (born 1806)
• 22 October – Anders Lundquist, artist (born 1803)
• 29 October – Carl Erengisle Hyltén-Cavallius, pharmacist and chemist (born 1817)
• 1 November – Nils Andersson, murderer and arsonist
• 1 November – Jöns Göransson Ramberg, murderer and arsonist
• 2 November – Georg Günther, organist and composer (born 1786)
• 9 November – Märta Christina Sällström, actress and opera singer (born 1808)
• 6 November – Samuel Grubbe, philosopher and politician (born 1786)
• 5 December – Jeanette Wässelius, opera singer and actress (born 1784)
• 28 December – Peter Blom, artist (born 1791)

Undated

• Niklas Robert Leffler, artist (born 1811)

Publications

• Fredrika Bremer's travelogue Hemmen i den nya världen ('Homes in the New World').
• Wilhelm Lilljeborg's book De crustaceis ex ordinibus tribus: Cladocera, Ostracoda et Copepoda, in Scania occurrentibus.
• Elias Sehlstedt's poetry collection Fiskmåsen: Poetisk Vår-Kalender för 1853 ('The Seagull: Poetic Spring Calendar for 1853').
• Johan Haqvin Wallman's book Försök till en systematisk uppställning af växtfamiljen Characeae, including the first published reference to the species Chara hornemannii.

See also

• 1853 paintings from Sweden
• Built in Sweden in 1853