1864 in Sweden

Incumbents

• Monarch – Charles XV

  Events

• The Skandinaviska Banken founded.
• The newspaper Dagens Nyheter begins its publication.
• June 18 - The Decree of Extended Freedom of Trade introduce complete freedom of trade in Sweden: unmarried women are granted the same rights within trade and commerce as men.
• Husbands are forbidden to abuse their wives.
• The gymnastics profession is open to women.
• Queen Louise and Princess Louise takes lessons in ice skating for the pioneer Nancy Edberg, making ice skating socially acceptable for females.
• Bertha Valerius appointed official photographer of the royal court.
• Women students are admitted as students at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts without having to apply for a dispensation.
• Foundation of the Statens normalskola för flickor.
• The famous trip of the Sami Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter to Stockholm.

  Births

• 20 January - Mathilda Malling, novelist
• 12 March - Alice Tegnér, composer
• 25 June - Ola Hanson, missionary.
• 20 July - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, poet
• 27 November - Gustaf Boivie, sport shooter.
• 3 December - Anna Boberg, artist
• 17 December - Felix Körling, composer.
• 18 December - Per-Olof Arvidsson, sport shooter.

  Deaths

• 2 January - Johan Gabriel Richert, jurist and politician
• 2 March - Brita Catharina Lidbeck, singer
• 28 May – Charlotta Deland, stage actress
• 4 November - Lotten Wennberg, philanthropist
• Wendla Åberg, dancer and actress