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1800 in Sweden. 3 languages. ... Deaths. 21 May - Carl August Ehrensvärd, artist and architect (born 1745) 29 May - Charlotte Slottsberg, ballerina (born 1760)
The Small Giant: Sweden Enters the Industrial Era. (1986). 364 pp. Hoppe, Göran and Langton, John. Peasantry to Capitalism: Western Östergötland in the Nineteenth Century. (1995). 457 pp. Kent, Neil. A Concise History of Sweden (2008), 314 pp. excerpt and text search; Magnusson, Lars. An Economic History of Sweden (2000) online edition
The Famine of 1867–1869 was the last famine in Sweden, and (together with the Finnish famine of 1866–1868) the last major famine in Northern Europe. [1] [2] In Sweden, the year 1867 was known as Storsvagåret (' Year of Great Weakness ') and, in Tornedalen, as Lavåret (' Lichen Year ') because of the bark bread made of lichen. [3]
The death penalty was abolished for certain crimes during the reign of Gustav III, and pardons were more frequently issued. During the 19th century, the use of pardons increased even more, and starting in the middle of the 1800s, courts were officially permitted to pick between the death penalty or lifetime in prison. [38]
Years in Sweden: 1800 ... A prostitute taken to the Långholmens spinnhus in the 1800s. Events from the year 1803 in Sweden. ... Deaths. 1 February ...
Between 1570 and 1800, Sweden experienced two periods of urban expansion. Finland was lost to Russia in a war in 1808–1809. ... The steady decline of death rates in ...
Nyköping Banquet, Christmas celebration, after which King Birger imprisons his two brothers and starves them to death 1319: Sweden and Norway first unite 1323: Treaty of Nöteborg establishes peace between Sweden and the Novgorod Republic: 1344: Bridgettine Order founded by St. Bridget (Heliga Birgitta) 1350: Black Death arrives in Sweden 1359
Between 1800 and 1866, 644 executions were carried out in Sweden, the second highest per-capita number in Europe after Spain. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 1864, the Penal Code was reformed and the use of capital punishment was severely restricted, rather than abolished (as had been proposed), and hanging was abolished.