← 1896 1895 1894 1897 in Sweden → 1898 1899 1900
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1897 Timeline of Swedish history

Events from the year 1897 in Sweden

• Monarch – Oscar II
• Prime Minister – Erik Gustaf Boström.

• The General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm
• The Swedish Transport Workers' Union was founded.
• Sturehof is opened.
• Elsa Eschelsson become the first female with a Doctor of Laws in Sweden.
• Märtha Leth becomes the first formally educated and licensed female pharmacist in Sweden.

• IFK Eskilstuna founded
• Göteborgs FF founded
• Hammarby IF Bandy founded
• IFK Norrköping founded

• 22 March – Carl Munters, inventor (died 1989)
• 30 March – Martin Hindorff, sailor (died 1969).^[1]
• 18 April – Per-Erik Hedlund, cross country skier (died 1975).^[2]
• 5 July – Åke Häger, gymnast (died 1968).^[3]
• 17 August – Erik Charpentier, gymnast (died 1978).^[4]

• 30 January – Robert Themptander, prime minister (born 1844)
• 12 September - Fredrika Limnell, salonnière, philanthropist, women's rights activist (born 1816)
• 14 December - Edvard Swartz, stage actor (born 1826)

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