Events from the year 1872 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Charles XV, then Oscar II
Events
27 February - Betty Pettersson is accepted as a student at the Uppsala university, and thereby becomes the first female university student in Sweden.Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare (Swedish women: Predecessors, successors) Lund: Signum 1990. () (In Swedish) - Women are granted unlimited right to choose marriage partner without the need of any permission from her family, and arranged marriages are thereby banned (women of the nobility, however, are not granted the same right until 1882).Nordisk familjebok / Uggleupplagan. 9. Fruktodling - Gossensass / 1139-1140 (1908) - Folk schools are given state support.Hadenius, Stig, Nilsson, Torbjörn & Åselius, Gunnar, Sveriges historia: vad varje svensk bör veta, Bonnier Alba, Stockholm, 1996 - Linköping Central Station is completed 18 September - King Charles XV dies. Having no sons, he's succeeded by his brother Oscar II
Births 14 January – Kerstin Hesselgren, Swedish politician (died 1962) 28 April – Carl Bonde, army officer and equerry (died 1957) 1 May – Hugo Alfvén, musician (died 1960) 9 June – Henry Rines, Swedish-born Minnesota Republican politician (died 1950) 26 September – Oscar Nygren, chief of the Swedish general staff from 1933 to 1937 (died 1960) 6 October – Carl Gustaf Ekman, member of parliament from 1911 to 1932 (died 1945) 12 November – Ida Granqvist, missionary (died 1949) 17 December – Valdemar Langlet, publisher (died 1960)
Deaths
22 March - Karolina Bock, actress (born 1792) 3 April – Henriette Widerberg, opera primadonna (born 1796) 3 September – Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (born 1801) 18 September – Charles XV 20 November – Lars Johan Hierta, publisher (born 1801) Helena Eldrup, educator (born 1800)
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