1870 in Sweden

← 1869 1868 1867 1870 in Sweden → 1871 1872 1873
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1870 Timeline of Swedish history

Events from the year 1870 in Sweden

• Monarch – Charles XV

• - In accordance with the recommendations of the progressive Girls' School Committee of 1866, the first gymnasium for women is opened (at Wallinska skolan in Stockholm).^[1]
• - Universities open to women (at the same terms as men 1873).^[2]
• - The first Folk high school open to women is founded by Fredrique Paijkull.
• - The Bukowskis is founded
• - First issue of Sydsvenskan

• 25 January - Helge von Koch, mathematician (died 1924)
• 27 May - Anna Stecksén, pathologist (died 1904)
• 3 April - Agda Östlund, suffragist and social democrat (died 1942)
• 7 April – Anna Lindhagen, politician and social reformer (died 1941)
• 2 October - Hilma Swedahl, gold prospector (died 1965)
• 11 November - Sigfrid Edström, 4th president of the IOC (died 1964)

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• 28 June – Henrik Reuterdahl, archbishop (born 1795)

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