Events from the year 1858 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Oscar I
Events - The Conventicle Act (Sweden) is removed and the free churches are legalized. - Establishment of the Geological Survey of Sweden - Gothenburg Central Station is inaugurated. - Statistics Sweden is created. - Inauguration of Vänortsparken - Legal majority for unmarried women (if applied for; automatic legal majority in 1863).Lilla Focus Uppslagsbok (Little Focus Encyclopedia) Focus Uppslagsböcker AB (1979) (Swedish) - Louise Flodin starts her own news paper in Arboga, staffed exclusively by women. - The formal right of an employer to physically discipline their adult servants is abolished.Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, Kärlek, död och frihet: historiska uppsatser om människovärde och livsvillkor i Sverige, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1985
Births 28 February - Tore Svennberg, actor (died 1941) 3 June - Alina Jägerstedt, union worker (died 1919) 16 June - Gustaf V, king of sweden (died 29 October 1950) 24 October - Ebba Bernadotte, philanthropist and morganatic consort (died 1926) 20 November - Selma Lagerlöf, writer (died 1940) 18 December - Kata Dalström, political agitator (died 1923)
Deaths 30 March - Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter (born 1806) 15 October - Karl Gustaf Mosander, chemist (born 1797) Ulla Stenberg, artist (born 1792) 2 April – Charlotte Lindmark, ballerina (born 1819) 31 December – Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe, court official (born 1779)
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