1866 in Sweden

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Events from the year 1866 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

Events

• The Riksdag of the Estates is dissolved and replaced by the Riksdag.
• The Governmental Girl School Committee of 1866 recommend a number of reforms in women's rights, such as access to a number of professions, to make universities available to women, to regulate girl's high schools so as to prepare women for university studies, introduce Gymnasium (school) for women, and give government support to the girl schools which met with the demands. These recommendations are met within the next few years.
• The title of Fröken (Miss), until then reserved for noblewomen, are permitted for all unmarried women, and the title Mamsell comes out of use.
• In Gothenburg, Emanuella Carlbeck open the first institution for people with Intellectual disability in Sweden.
• Emmy Rappe are sent to Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at St Thomas' Hospital in London in order to be educated in nursing.
• Elizabeth Stride emigrate to London in Great Britain.
• The inauguration of the Norrköping Central Station
• The first issue of the Smålandsposten
• Rosalie Fougelberg becomes the first female dentist after the profession had been formally opened to women.

Births

Nathan Söderblom, Archbishop of Uppsala, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1930

• 15 January – Nathan Söderblom, clergyman, archbishop (died 1931)
• 13 January – Emilia Broomé women's rights activist and politician (died 1925)
• 21 May - Ebba von Eckermann women's rights activist (died 1960)
• 8 July – Nils Adlercreutz, horse rider (died 1955).
• 14 July – Ragnar Östberg, architect (died 1945)
• 29 September – Per Hallström, writer (died 1960)
• 20 October – Gustav Cassel, economist (died 1945)
• 11 December – Ebba Hay, tennis player (died 1954)
• 18 December – Gertrud Månsson, politician (died 1935)

Deaths

• 24 March – Carl d'Unker, artist (born 1828)
• 6 August – Christian Eric Fahlcrantz, writer (born 1780)
• 16 September – Johan Fredrik Höckert, artist (born 1826)
• Brita Sofia Hesselius, the first professional female photographer in Sweden (born 1801).