1858 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Oscar I

  Events

• - The Conventicle Act is removed and the free churches are legalized.
• - Establishment of the Geological Survey of Sweden
• - Gothenburg Central Station is inaugurated.
• - Statistics Sweden is created.
• - Inauguration of Vänortsparken
• - Legal majority for unmarried women.
• - Louise Flodin starts her own news paper in Arboga, staffed exclusively by women.
• - The formal right of an employer to physically discipline their adult servants is abolished.

  Births

• 28 February - Tore Svennberg, actor
• 20 November - Selma Lagerlöf, writer
• Kata Dalström, political agitator
• Alina Jägerstedt, union worker
• Ebba Bernadotte, philanthropist and morganatic consort

  Deaths

• 30 March - Marie Kinnberg, photographer and painter
• 15 October - Karl Gustaf Mosander, chemist
• Ulla Stenberg, artist
• 2 April – Charlotte Lindmark, ballerina
• 31 December – Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe, court official