Events from the year 1878 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Oscar II Prime Minister – Louis Gerhard De Geer
Events
21 July - The Vega Expedition starts August – Mission Covenant Church of Sweden is founded 22 November - The Metric system is introduced in Sweden 6 December - The Phonograph is introduced in Sweden - First issue of Bohusläningen - The Stockholm University is founded. - The Eldkvarn fire. - The Svenska Federationen is founded to stop the regulation of prostitutes.Svanström, Yvonne, Offentliga kvinnor: prostitution i Sverige 1812-1918 [Public Women: Prostitution in Sweden 1812-1918], Ordfront, Stockholm, 2006 (Swedish) It also questioned the sexual double standards that justified it, which also inspired the public sexual morality debate referred to as Sedlighetsdebatten. - The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is bought by the French.
Births
4 January – Rosa Grünberg, actress and singer (died 1960) 25 January – Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer (died 1975) 17 February – Celina Runeborg, painter (died 1977) 27 May – Anna Cervin, artist (died 1972) 25 June – Erik Viktor Tryggelin, painter (died 1962) 23 September – Carl Kylberg, modernist painter (died 1952)
Deaths
8 February – Elias Magnus Fries, mycologist and botanist (born 1794) 8 October - Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer (born 1793) 30 November – Dorothea Dunckel, playwright (born 1799)
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