Events from the year 1816 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Charles XIII
Events
Sweden joins the Holy Alliance. Inauguration of the Segerlindska teatern in Gothenburg.Teaterliv i Göteborg, Åke Pettersson 1992
Births
3 February – Carl Olof Rosenius, preacher, author and editor (died 1868) 18 March – Louise von Fersen, heiress (died 1879) 12 June – Nils Blommér, painter (died 1853) 23 June – Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander, architect, painter and composer (died 1881) 2 July – Wilhelmina Josephson, pianist (died 1906) 14 July – Fredrika Limnell, salonnière, women's right activist, philanthropist (died 1897) 21 August – Jeanette Berglind, sign language teacher and principal (died 1903) 12 September – Aurora von Qvanten, writer and artist (died 1907) 20 September – Fredrik August Dahlgren, writer (died 1895) 11 October – Edvard Stjernström, stage actor and theater director (died 1877) 26 December – Aurore Storckenfeldt, educator (died 1900)
Deaths
14 January – Rutger Macklean, a driving figure in the reorganization of agricultural lands in Sweden that made possible large-scale farming with its economy of scale (born 1742) 24 January – Pehr Hörberg, artist (born 1746) 6 February – Henrik Gahn 11 February – Sophie Piper, courtier (born 1757) 27 July – Olof Tempelman, architect (born 1745)
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