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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 1.3 million Swedes left Sweden for the United States of America. While the land of the American frontier was a magnet for the rural poor all over Europe, some factors encouraged Swedish emigration in particular.
The Swedes and the Swedish Settlements in North America 2 vols. (Lund, 1943) Nelson, Robert J. If We Could Only Come to America... A Story of Swedish Immigrants in the Midwest. (Sunflower U. Press, 2004) Norman, Hans, and Harald Runblom. Transatlantic Connections: Nordic Migration to the New World After 1800 (1988). Olson, Anita Ruth.
Pages in category "1800 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 467 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Deaths. 21 May - Carl August Ehrensvärd, artist and architect (born 1745) 29 May - Charlotte Slottsberg, ballerina (born 1760) Julie ... 1800 in Sweden.
Pages in category "1800s deaths" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Manuel de Amaya;
Estimated birth rate (blue) and death rate in Sweden for the period of 1735 to 2000. The graph indicates strong population growth for the period of 1800 to 1970, and a beginning population decline from the 1980s. The birth and death rates in Sweden 1950–2008. Demographic statistics according to the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise ...
An Economic History of Sweden (2000) online edition Archived 17 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Moberg, Vilhelm, and Paul Britten Austin. A History of the Swedish People: Volume 1: From Prehistory to the Renaissance, (2005); A History of the Swedish People: Volume II: From Renaissance to Revolution (2005). Nordstrom, Byron J.
Between 1750 and 1850, the population in Sweden doubled. Sweden was hit by the last natural caused famine in Europe, the Famine of 1867-69 killed thousands in Sweden. According to some scholars, mass emigration to America became the only way to prevent famine and rebellion; over 1% of the population emigrated annually during the 1880s. [74]