1801 in Sweden

Events from the year 1801 in Sweden

← 1800 1799 1798 1801 in Sweden → 1802 1803 1804
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
See also:	Other events of 1801 Timeline of Swedish history

Ulrica Arfvidsson, contemporary drawing

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
• The Second League of Armed Neutrality, an alliance of Denmark–Norway, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia dissolves.
• Foundation of the Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm, the only theater except the Royal Dramatic Theater allowed to function in the capital during the 1798–1842 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 1872)
• 9 May – Ulrika von Strussenfelt, writer (died 1873)
• 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 Jakob Sundevall, zoologist (died 1875)
• 18 December – Ulrik Torsslow, actor (died 1881)
• Brita Sofia Hesselius, photographer (died 1866)

Deaths

• Ulrica Arfvidsson, fortune teller (born 1734)