Events from the year 1855 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Oscar I
Events 1 January - The Telegraphynet between the most important cities in Sweden are completed. 1 July - The first Swedish Postage stamp. 4 May - Kyrkoplikt as well as all remaining forms of Public humiliation and Corporal punishments are abolished.Nordisk familjebok - The Great Awakening established in Sweden. - Inauguration of the Gothenburg Synagogue. - Lea Ahlborn is appointed royal printmaker, which formally makes her the first female civil servant in Sweden.Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare. Lund: Signum 1990. () - Frederique Hammarstedt takes over the Hammarstedtska skolan. - KFUM Jönköping - Klosterskolan (Uppsala), the first training college for female teachers, is founded. - Svenska lärarinnors pensionsförening (The Society for Retired Female Teachers) is founded by initiative of Josefina Deland. - A reform abolishes the use of Pillory and the Pranger, by then already in practice outdated and seldom used.
Births
25 April – Hjalmar Lundbohm, geologist and chemist (died 1926) 10 June - Hilma Angered Strandberg, writer (died 1927) 19 November - Anna Branting, journalist and writer (died 1950) 23 September - Ellen Fries, writer (died 1900) 7 December - Gunhild Rosén, ballerina and ballet master (died 1928)
Deaths 25 January – Carolina Brunström, ballerina (born 1803) 15 February - Emilia Uggla, pianist (born 1819) 7 May – Wendela Gustafva Sparre, textile artist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1772) 27 August – Hans Olov Holmström, bishop (born 1784) - Marie Antoinette Petersén, violinist (born 1771)
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