1816 in Sweden

Events from the year 1816 in Sweden

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Segerlindska teatern

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XIII

Events

• Sweden joins the Holy Alliance.
• Inauguration of the Segerlindska teatern in Gothenburg.

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)
• 20 September – Fredrik August Dahlgren, writer (died 1895)
• - Jeanette Berglind, sign language teacher and principal (died 1903)
• - Fredrika Limnell, salonnière, women's right activist, philanthropist (died 1897)
• - Aurore Storckenfeldt, educator (died 1900)
• - Edvard Stjernström, stage actor and theater director (died 1877)

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)