1801 in Sweden

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File:Ulrica Arfvidsson.jpg

Ulrica Arfvidsson, contemporary drawing

Events from the year 1801 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Gustav IV Adolf

Events

• - The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy is occupied by Great Britain.
• - Carl Gustaf af Leopold publishes the Afhandling om svenska stafsättet
• - Foundation of the Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm, the only theater accept the Royal Dramatic Theater allowed in the capital during the royal theater monopoly.

Births

• 22 January – Lars Johan Hierta, newspaper publisher, social critic, businessman and politician (died 1872)
• 1 February - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (died 1878)
• 24 March - Immanuel Nobel, engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist (died 1)
• 17 May - Lovisa Åhrberg, herbalist doctor (died 1881)
• 21 May - Princess Sophie of Sweden, princess (died 1865)
• 26 July – Maria Röhl, portrait artist (died 1875)
• 14 August - Fredrika Bremer, writer (died 1865)
• 22 October - Carl Jacob Sundevall, zoologist (died 1875)
• 18 December – Ulrik Torsslow, actor (died 1881)
• – Brita Sofia Hesselius, photographer (died 1866)
• 9 May – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (died 1873)

Deaths

• - Ulrica Arfvidsson, fortune teller (born 1734)