Events from the year 1869 in Sweden
Incumbents
- Monarch – Charles XV
Events
- 10 July – Gävle is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
- Malmö SS is founded.
- Women are allowed to work in the railway office.
Births
- 10 April – Signe Bergman, women's right activist (died 1960)
- 28 June – Lydia Wahlström, historian and women's rights activist (died 1954)
- 2 July – Hjalmar Söderberg, writer (died 1941)
- 21 October – Stina Berg, actress (died 1930)
- 6 December – Otto Nordenskjöld, geologist, geographer and polar explorer (died 1928)
Deaths
- 28 January – Sophie Bolander, writer (born 1807)
- 22 September – Ulrika Sofia De Geer, countess and salonnière (born 1793)
- 12 November – Carl Georg Brunius, classical scholar, art historian, archaeologist and architect (born 1793)
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