1846 in Sweden
# 1846 in Sweden

Events from the year 1846 in Sweden

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Oscar I

## Events

* 28 June: The Church of Sweden Härnösand Cathedral is inaugurated.
* December 22 - The guild system in Sweden is abolished by the Fabriks och Handtwerksordning and Handelsordningen.
* Trade and craft professions are opened to all unmarried women.
* Adolf Eugene von Rosen and Georg Theodor Policron von Chiewitz proposes a regulation of Gamla stan.
* The Swedish History Museum is founded.
* Gothenburg becomes the first Swedish city to be lit up by voal gas.
* Den broderade plånboken by August Blanche
* Dubbelgångaren av Fjodor Dostojevskij
* Engelbrekt och hans dalkarlar by August Blanche
* Läkaren by August Blanche
* Magister Bläckstadius eller giftermåls-annonsen by August Blanche
* Rika morbror by August Blanche
* Syskonbarnen eller Hofgunst och Folkgunst by Karl Kullberg
* Torparen och hans omgifning by Sophie von Knorring

## Births

* 26 February – Amanda Forsberg, ballerina
* 16 March – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, mathematician (died 1927)
* 28 April – Johan Oskar Backlund, astronomer (died 1916)
* 5 May – Lars Magnus Ericsson, inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson (incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (died 1926)
* May - Nanna Hoffman factory owner (died 1920)
* 22 December – Andreas Hallén, composer, conductor and music teacher (died 1925)

## Deaths

* 28 January - Sara Wacklin, writer and educator (born 1790)
* 8 April - Augusta von Fersen, courtier (born 1754)
* 2 November – Esaias Tegnér, poet (born 1782)
* 18 December – Emilie Högqvist, actress and royal mistress (born 1812)
* Helena Spinacuta, actor and acrobat (born 1766)
